Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 13
But I do not know anybody in this town, and I have not had anything to eat for a long time."
Who acts: I · What happens: not know, not have, eat · To what, where: anybody, town, anything
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 know | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anybody | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 had | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 know | parataxis |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 eat | mark |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 anything | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eat | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | anybody | this town | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anybody=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not have | present · perfect | I | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | anything not said here | time | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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