Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 24
So, when the king's sher-iff comes, let us all act like fools."
Who acts: sher iff, you · What happens: come, let, act · To what, where: us
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 (sher iff, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 let | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 comes | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 comes | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 iff | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | sher | sher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 iff | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sher | punct |
| 9 | iff | iff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 comes | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 act | advmod |
| 15 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | advcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 fools | case |
| 17 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 act | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the king's sher iff | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | act | present | you not said here | like fools | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like fool=Attribute |
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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