The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 50
'Now, O my people!' he cried, waving his hand, 'you know my name--I am Makoma, "the Greater"; for have I not slain the crocodiles into the pool where none would venture?'
Who acts: people, you, I, none, my · What happens: cry, wave, know, be, have, not slain · To what, where: hand, name, Makoma, crocodiles, pool
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, you, I, none), 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 | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 cried | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 people | discourse |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 people | nmod:poss |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 people | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 people | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waving | punct |
| 12 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waving | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 waving | parataxis |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 name | nmod:poss |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 know | obj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 Makoma | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 Makoma | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Makoma | cop |
| 24 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Greater | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Greater | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Greater | det |
| 28 | Greater | Greater | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Makoma | appos |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Greater | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 slain | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 have | mark |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 slain | advcl |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 slain | nsubj |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 slain | advmod |
| 35 | slain | slain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 crocodiles | det |
| 37 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 slain | obj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 pool | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 pool | det |
| 40 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 slain | obl |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 venture | advmod |
| 42 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 44 venture | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 venture | aux |
| 44 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 pool | acl:relcl |
| 45 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | my people | now | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wave | gerund | my people not said here | boy's hand | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | present | you | my name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | Makoma | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | present | I not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not slain | present | I | the crocodiles | the pool | tree rules | |||
| 7 | venture | would | none | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | name | my | nom name «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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