Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 4

If he came to their town, they would have to find food and lodg-ing for him and his men; and if he saw anything that pleased him, he would be sure to take it for his own.

Who acts: king, men · What happens: come, have, find, see, be, take · To what, where: town, food, anything, ing

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 (king, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 have	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 town	nmod:poss
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ing	cc
15	lodg	lodg	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ing	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 lodg	punct
17	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 food	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ing	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 men	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 men	nmod:poss
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 him	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 saw	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 have	parataxis
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 saw	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 pleased	nsubj
30	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 anything	amod
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pleased	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sure	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sure	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 sure	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 sure	cop
36	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 saw	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 take	mark
38	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 sure	xcomp
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 take	obj
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 own	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 own	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 take	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	past	king		men's town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
2	have	would	men = man				tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	food and lodg ing for king			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
4	see a condition, not said to happen	past	king	anything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
5	is	would	king			sure property	tree rules
6	take	to-infinitive	king not said here	ing		for king's own	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for own=Beneficiary

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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