Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 21
The captain has sold your cat, and has brought you, in return for her, more riches than I have in the whole world."
Who acts: I · What happens: sell, bring, have · To what, where: captain, you, return, whole world
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sold | aux |
| 4 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sold | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sold | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 return | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 return | case |
| 14 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 return | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 riches | punct |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 riches | amod |
| 19 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sold | conj |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sold | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 world | amod |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sold | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present · perfect · passive | the captain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient cat=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect | you | return for cat | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | the whole world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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