Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 11
They would either have to make a new road, or give up the plan al-to-geth-er, and go on to some other place.
Who acts: men · What happens: have, make, give up, go on · To what, where: new road, plan
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise 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 (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 road | amod |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 give | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plan | det |
| 15 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 plan | appos |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 er | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 er | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 to | punct |
| 20 | geth | geth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 er | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 geth | punct |
| 22 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 al | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 go | cc |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 place | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 place | amod |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | men = man | either property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | a new road | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset road=Product | ||||
| 3 | give up | infinitive | men = man not said here | the plan | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Source | ||||
| 4 | go on | infinitive | men = man not said here | to some other place | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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