Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 12
"O king!" said the abbot, "I beg to say that I am spending nothing but what is my own.
Who acts: king · What happens: say, beg, spend, be · To what, where: abbot, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 king | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 king | discourse |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 abbot | det |
| 8 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beg | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 beg | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 beg | nsubj |
| 12 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 beg | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 spending | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 spending | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 spending | aux |
| 18 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 say | ccomp |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 spending | obj |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 own | cc |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 own | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 own | cop |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 own | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spending | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | the abbot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent abbot=Topic | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | king | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | spend in a quote | present · progressive | king | nothing | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Asset | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | own 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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