Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 47
Don't you know that the bird will fly over the top of your wall, no matter how high you build it?"
Who acts: you, bird · What happens: do, not know, fly, build · To what, where: top, bird · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, bird), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 fly | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fly | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fly | aux |
| 9 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fly | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wall | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 matter | punct |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 matter | det |
| 18 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | conj |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 high | advmod |
| 20 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 build | xcomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 build | nsubj |
| 22 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 matter | acl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 build | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fly | future | the bird | the top of your wall and no matter | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over top=Location | ||||
| 4 | build | present | you | bird | high property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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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