Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 31
"The next one that comes this way will not bless the abbot," said Ralph the Rover.
Who acts: next one, Ralph · What happens: come, not bless, say · To what, where: 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 (next one, Ralph), 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 | _ | 11 bless | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bless | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bless | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 bless | advmod |
| 11 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 abbot | det |
| 13 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bless | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bless | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bless | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Rover | det |
| 19 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | the next one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not bless in a quote | future | the next one | the abbot | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abbot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ralph | 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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