Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 7

And which way will you bring them home?"

Who acts: way · What happens: bring · To what, where: sheep

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 (way), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 bring	cc
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bring	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 bring	nsubj
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bring	obj
8	home	home	ADV	_	6 bring	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	future	which way	sheep				home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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