Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 28
"We find," said they, "that your eldest son, Robert, will be bold and gallant.
Who acts: We · What happens: find, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 they | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 they | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bold | nsubj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 son | amod |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bold | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Robert | punct |
| 15 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 bold | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bold | cop |
| 19 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 they | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gallant | cc |
| 21 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bold | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present | We | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | bold property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | 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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