The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 56
'I am Makoma, which signifies "greater,"' answered he.
Who acts: I, Makoma · What happens: be, signify, answer · To what, where: Makoma
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 (I, Makoma), 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 Makoma | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Makoma | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Makoma | cop |
| 4 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 signifies | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 signifies | nsubj |
| 7 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Makoma | acl:relcl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 greater | punct |
| 9 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 signifies | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 signifies | parataxis |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Makoma | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | Makoma | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | signify | present | Makoma | great property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Makoma | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=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: «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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