Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 4
"You are the greatest man that ever lived," one would say.
Who acts: You, greatest man, one · What happens: be, live, say · To what, where: greatest man · 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 (You, greatest man, one), 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 | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 lived | advmod |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 12 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | aux |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lived | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | the greatest man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | past | the greatest man | ever | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | would | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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