Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 3
"I am thinking," he said, "of what my sons may do after I am dead.
Who acts: liam, sons · What happens: think, say, do, 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 (liam, sons), 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 | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | aux |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 " | obl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sons | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 dead | case |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dead | cop |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 do | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · progressive | liam | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | liam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | may | my sons | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | liam | dead 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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