Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 49
"Oh, what a wretch am I!" cried Ralph the Rover. "
Who acts: wretch · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: Rover · 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 (wretch), 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 | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wretch | det |
| 6 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 what | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | flat |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rover | det |
| 14 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rover | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a wretch | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Rover | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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