Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 36

"O king!" said the story-teller, "they have as yet cleared only one cubit; and there are many thousand cubits in the granary."

Who acts: king, tellers, thousand cubits · What happens: say, clear, be · To what, where: story teller, one cubit · 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 (king, tellers, thousand cubits), 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	_	3 king	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	3 king	discourse
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 king	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 king	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 teller	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teller	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 story	punct
10	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cleared	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 cleared	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cleared	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cleared	aux
15	as	as	ADV	_	17 cleared	advmod
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 cleared	advmod
17	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 cubit	advmod
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 cubit	nummod
20	cubit	cubit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cleared	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 are	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 are	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 are	expl
24	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thousand	amod
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 cubits	nummod
27	cubits	cubit	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 are	nsubj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 granary	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 granary	det
30	granary	granary	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cubits	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	king	the story teller			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent teller=Topic
2	clear in a quote	present · perfect	tellers = teller	one cubit		yet	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
3	does in a quote	present	thousand cubits in the granary		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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