Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 6

And another would say, "Great Canute, there is nothing in the world that dares to dis-o-bey you."

Who acts: another, nothing, that · What happens: say, be, dare, dis · To what, where: Great Canute, bey · 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 (another, nothing, that), 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	_	4 say	cc
2	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	4 say	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Canute	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Canute	punct
7	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Canute	amod
8	Canute	Canute	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 is	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nothing	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 dares	nsubj
17	dares	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 nothing	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 dis	mark
19	dis	dis	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 dares	xcomp
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 bey	punct
21	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	23 bey	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 o	punct
23	bey	bey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dis	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 bey	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	another	Great Canute		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent canute=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	nothing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dare in a quote	present	that			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	dis in a quote	to-infinitive	that not said here	bey		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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