Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 12

"God bless the good Abbot of Ab-er-broth-ock!" they all said.

Who acts: God, sailors · What happens: bless, say · To what, where: good Abbot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Inchcape Rock.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, sailors), 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 bless	punct
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bless	nsubj
3	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Abbot	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Abbot	amod
6	Abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bless	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	14 ock	case
8	Ab	Ab	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 ock	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Ab	punct
10	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ock	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 er	punct
12	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ock	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ock	punct
14	ock	ock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Abbot	nmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 bless	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 bless	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 said	advmod
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless in a quote	infinitive	God	the good Abbot of er broth ock					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abbot=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	sailors = sailor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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