Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 10

And then he called very loud, "Here, Dick!

Who acts: child · What happens: call · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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 called	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 called	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 loud	advmod
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Here	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Here	punct
9	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 called	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Dick	punct
11	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Here	vocative
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	child				then	loud property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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