Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 19
"You are my boy now, and so you must do as I tell you.
Who acts: You, maid · What happens: be, do, tell · To what, where: boy, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, maid), 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 | _ | 5 boy | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boy | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 boy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 boy | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 do | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 boy | acl:relcl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | my boy | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | must | you | my boy not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | maid | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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