Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 13
"I have nothing in the world," he said, "but a cat which I bought some time ago for a penny."
Who acts: Dick, cat · What happens: have, say, buy · To what, where: nothing, world · 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 (Dick, cat), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 cat | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cat | det |
| 16 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bought | nsubj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 bought | nsubj |
| 19 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cat | acl:relcl |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 19 bought | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 penny | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 penny | det |
| 25 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Dick | nothing | the world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | buy in a quote | past | a cat | for a penny; ago property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for penny=Beneficiary |
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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