Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 18
"Command it, O king! and it will obey," said one.
Who acts: No. · What happens: command, obey, say · To what, where: No., one · 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 (No.), 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 Command | punct |
| 2 | Command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Command | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 5 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 king | case |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Command | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Command | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 obey | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 obey | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 obey | aux |
| 11 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Command | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Command | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Command | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command in a quote | infinitive | No. | of king | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | obey in a quote | future | No. | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | one | 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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