Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 59
It would be safer to leave the door at home, and carry the money with you."
Who acts: It · What happens: be, leave, carry · To what, where: door, home, money
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 safer | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 safer | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 safer | cop |
| 4 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 leave | mark |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 safer | csubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carry | cc |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 leave | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 money | det |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 carry | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 safer | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 safer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | It | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the door | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent door=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | infinitive | the money | with you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
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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