Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 29
It is he whom you ought to praise and serve above all others."
Who acts: lesson, you · What happens: be, praise, serve · To what, where: others
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 (lesson, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 whom | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 whom | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 whom | nsubj |
| 4 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 praise | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 praise | nsubj |
| 6 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 praise | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 praise | mark |
| 8 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 serve | cc |
| 10 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 praise | conj |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 others | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 serve | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 praise | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 praise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | lesson | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | praise | ought | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | serve | infinitive | you not said here | all others | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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