Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 26
We will all act like fools."
Who acts: We · What happens: act
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 act | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 act | aux |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 act | advmod |
| 4 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 fools | case |
| 6 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 act | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 act | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | future | We | like fools; all property | 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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