Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 50

This is what comes of the joke that I played on the good abbot!"

Who acts: This, I · What happens: be, come, play · To what, where: joke

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 (This, I), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 what	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 joke	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 played	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 played	nsubj
10	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 joke	acl:relcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 abbot	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 abbot	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 abbot	amod
14	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 played	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This			tree rules
2	come	present			of the joke	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of joke=Initial_Location
3	play	past	I	the joke	on the good abbot	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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