Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 19
If the Douglas should happen this way before morning, he will be sorry for his care-less-ness."
Who acts: Douglas · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Douglas), 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 | _ | 5 happen | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Douglas | det |
| 3 | Douglas | Douglas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sorry | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happen | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sorry | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sorry | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sorry | cop |
| 14 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 ness | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ness | nmod:poss |
| 17 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ness | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 ness | punct |
| 19 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 ness | advmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 ness | punct |
| 21 | ness | ness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sorry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorry | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen a condition, not said to happen | should | the Douglas | this way | morning | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | future | Douglas | for Douglas's ness; sorry property | 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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