Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 18

When all was ready, no one in the world would have thought that he was not the great man himself.

Who acts: all, shepherd · What happens: be, think, not be · To what, where: one, great man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (all, shepherd), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ready	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	nsubj:pass
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	aux
13	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ready	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 man	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 man	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 man	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 man	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	ccomp
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 man	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	all		ready property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	would · perfect · passive		no one in the world		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not is a	past	shepherd	the great man	shepherd nmod	tree rules

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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