Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 12
"O king!" they cried, "there is no one so mighty as you."
Who acts: king · What happens: cry, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Canute on the Seashore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 king | discourse |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mighty | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 mighty | advmod |
| 15 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 mighty | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | king not said here | as you; mighty 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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