Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 21
"Yes, if he suc-ceeds," said the king. "
Who acts: man, suc ceeds · What happens: ceed, say · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, suc ceeds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ceeds | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 ceeds | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 ceeds | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ceeds | nsubj |
| 6 | suc | suc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ceeds | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 suc | punct |
| 8 | ceeds | ceed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ceeds | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ceeds | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ceed a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | man | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | suc ceeds | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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