Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 37
"Man, man!" cried the king, "you will drive me mad.
Who acts: Man, you · What happens: cry, drive · To what, where: king, Man · 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, you), 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 | _ | 2 Man | punct |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Man | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Man | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Man | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drive | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 drive | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 drive | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 drive | aux |
| 14 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 drive | obj |
| 16 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 drive | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Man and man | the king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drive in a quote | future | you | Man and man = man | mad property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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