Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 23
"Go to work, you idle fellow," said some of them; and the rest passed him by without even looking at him.
Who acts: you, rest · What happens: go, fellow, say, pass, look · To what, where: work, some, Dick · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the City.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rest), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 work | case |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fellow | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 fellow | nsubj |
| 7 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fellow | amod |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 said | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 some | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 passed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 passed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passed | nsubj |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 passed | obj |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 looking | mark |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 24 looking | mark |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 looking | advmod |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 passed | advcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | fellow in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | some | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pass | past | the rest | Dick | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | the rest not said here | at Dick | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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