Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 27
And do you, my men, learn a lesson from what you have seen.
Who acts: you · What happens: learn, see · To what, where: lesson
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 learn | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 learn | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 do | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 men | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 men | nmod:poss |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 you | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 learn | punct |
| 8 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lesson | det |
| 10 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learn | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lesson | nmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · do-support | a lesson | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic from what=Source | |||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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