Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 11

If nothing else can be done, I can at least die in your place."

Who acts: I · What happens: do, die · To what, where: nothing, least

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 done	mark
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 done	nsubj:pass
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 nothing	advmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 die	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 die	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 die	aux
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 least	case
11	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 die	obl
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 place	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 place	nmod:poss
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 die	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do a condition, not said to happen	can · passive		nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	die	can	I			least		in your place	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Attribute

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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