Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 10
"The boy will be a sculp-tor some day," he said.
Who acts: boy, sculp tor · What happens: be, say · To what, where: sculp tor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, sculp tor), 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 | _ | 9 tor | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tor | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tor | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tor | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tor | det |
| 7 | sculp | sculp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tor | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sculp | punct |
| 9 | tor | tor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tor | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tor | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tor | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | future | the boy | a sculp tor | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a sculp tor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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