Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 15
The world bows before you, and gives you honor."
Who acts: world, you · What happens: bow, give, honor
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 (world, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 world | det |
| 2 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bows | nsubj |
| 3 | bows | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bows | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gives | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gives | cc |
| 8 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bows | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 honor | nsubj |
| 10 | honor | honor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gives | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bows | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | present | the world | before you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before you=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | present | the world not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | honor | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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