Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 45
"I cannot tell," said Ralph the Rover; "but I think we are not far from the Inchcape Rock.
Who acts: Ralph, we · What happens: not tell, say, think, not be · To what, where: Inchcape Rock · 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 (Ralph, we), 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 | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tell | advmod |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rover | det |
| 11 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ralph | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 think | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 think | nsubj |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 far | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 far | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 far | advmod |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 think | ccomp |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Rock | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Rock | det |
| 23 | Inchcape | Inchcape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Rock | compound |
| 24 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 far | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | can | Ralph | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ralph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Ralph | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | we | the Inchcape Rock | far property | tree rules |
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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