The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 10
"Your honor," he said, "the case has now been pending for six weeks.
Who acts: case, Your · What happens: say, pend, honor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (case, Your), 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 honor | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 honor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 honor | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 honor | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pending | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 pending | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 case | det |
| 11 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pending | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pending | aux |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 pending | advmod |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 pending | aux |
| 15 | pending | pend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 weeks | case |
| 17 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 weeks | nummod |
| 18 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pending | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | case | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pend in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | the case | now; week | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | honor in a quote | Your | nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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