Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 18
"Oh, do not say so!" said the abbot "For I"--
Who acts: abbot · What happens: not say, say · 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 (abbot), 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 | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 say | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 say | advmod |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 say | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 abbot | det |
| 12 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 I | punct |
| 14 | For | for | ADP | _ | 15 I | case |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 abbot | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 I | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the abbot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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