Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 5
I have come to bring you news of your ship 'U-ni-corn.'"
Who acts: I · What happens: come, bring · To what, where: you
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 bring | mark |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ship | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 news | nmod |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 ni | punct |
| 12 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ni | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 U | punct |
| 14 | ni | no | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bring | obj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 corn | punct |
| 16 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ni | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ni | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 ni | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ni | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | tree rules |
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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