Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 13
"Do all things obey me?" he asked.
Who acts: things, king · What happens: obey, ask · To what, where: king · 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 (things, 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 | _ | 5 obey | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obey | aux |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 things | det |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 obey | nsubj |
| 5 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 obey | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 obey | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 obey | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey in a quote | infinitive · do-support | all things | king | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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