Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 56
"Then why didn't you leave the door at home too?"
Who acts: you · What happens: not leave · To what, where: door, home
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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 leave | advmod |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 leave | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 leave | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | nsubj |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obl |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 leave | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave in a quote | past · do-support | you | the door | home | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent door=Theme at home=Location |
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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