Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 5

Then an-oth-er would say, "O king! there can never be an-oth-er man so mighty as you."

Who acts: oth er, king · What happens: say, not be, man · To what, where: oth · 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 (oth er, king), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 say	advmod
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 er	det
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 an	punct
4	oth	oth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 er	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 oth	punct
6	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 king	punct
11	O	o	INTJ	_	12 king	discourse
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 man	nsubj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 king	punct
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 king	advmod
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 man	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 oth	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 oth	cop
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 oth	det
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 an	punct
20	oth	oth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 man	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
22	er	er	INTJ	_	23 man	discourse
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	ccomp
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 mighty	advmod
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 mighty	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: express	would	a oth er		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	infinitive		a oth		tree rules
3	man in a quote	can	king			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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