Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 15
Look out that my sheep don't jump on the bridge."
Who acts: you, sheep · What happens: look out, not jump · To what, where: bridge
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Three Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sheep), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Look | compound:prt |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 jump | mark |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 jump | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 jump | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 jump | advmod |
| 8 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Look | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bridge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bridge | det |
| 11 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jump | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | imperative | you not said here | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not jump | present · do-support | my sheep | the bridge | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bridge=Trajectory |
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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