Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 7

Women would tell their chil-dren, when they were naughty, that the Black Douglas would get them; and this would make them very quiet and good.

Who acts: Women, Black Douglas, this · What happens: tell, be, get, make · To what, where: chil dren, Women · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Women, Black Douglas, this), 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	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dren	nmod:poss
5	chil	chil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dren	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 chil	punct
7	dren	dren	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 naughty	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 naughty	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 naughty	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 naughty	cop
12	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 get	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Douglas	det
16	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Douglas	compound
17	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 get	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 get	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 make	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 quiet	advmod
28	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 make	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 good	cc
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 quiet	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	Women	Women's chil dren		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dren=Recipient
2	is	past	Women = woman		naughty property	tree rules
3	get	would	the Black Douglas	Women = woman		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	make	would	this	Women = woman	quiet property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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