Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 21
"I will try to answer them, O king!" said the abbot.
Who acts: abbot · What happens: try, answer, say · To what, where: questions · 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 | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 answer | mark |
| 6 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answer | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 10 king | discourse |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 try | parataxis |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 abbot | det |
| 15 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | future | the abbot = abbot | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the abbot = abbot not said here | questions = question | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | 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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