Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 225
He asked her to speak the words over and over again.
Who acts: Wilhelm · What happens: ask, speak · To what, where: word, words · 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 (Wilhelm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:1898): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 speak | mark |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 speak | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 speak | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 over | cc |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 over | conj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 speak | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Wilhelm | word | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wilhelm not said here | the words | again | over property | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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