Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 63
"O father!" he cried, "may I not go now?
Who acts: father · What happens: cry, not go · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father), 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 father | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 father | discourse |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 go | advmod |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not go in a quote | may | father | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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