Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 24

"O king!" said the abbot, "these are deep, hard questions, and I cannot answer them just now.

Who acts: king, these · What happens: say, be, not answer · To what, where: abbot, 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 (king, these), 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	_	13 deep	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 deep	punct
11	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 deep	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 deep	cop
13	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 questions	punct
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 questions	amod
16	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 deep	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 answer	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 answer	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 answer	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 answer	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 answer	advmod
22	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 answer	obj
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 now	advmod
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 answer	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	king	the abbot				tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	these				deep property	tree rules
3	not answer speech: assert in a quote	can	king		questions = question	now		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

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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