Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 69

So they went back, and told the king that Gotham was a town of fools; and the king laughed, and said that if that was the case, he would not harm them, but would let them keep their noses.

Who acts: horsemen, Gotham, king, that · What happens: go back, tell, be, laugh, say, not harm · To what, where: king, town, case, horsemen, noses · 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 (horsemen, Gotham, king, that), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 town	mark
11	Gotham	Gotham	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 town	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 town	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 town	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 fools	case
16	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 town	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 laughed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 laughed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laughed	nsubj
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laughed	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 harm	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 case	mark
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 case	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 case	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 case	det
30	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 harm	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 case	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 harm	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 harm	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 harm	advmod
35	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 harm	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 let	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 let	cc
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 let	aux
40	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 laughed	ccomp
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 let	obj
42	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 let	xcomp
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 noses	nmod:poss
44	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 keep	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go back	past	horsemen = horseman				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	horsemen = horseman not said here		the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
3	is a	past	Gotham	a town		of fools	tree rules
4	laugh	past	the king				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	the king not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	that	the case			tree rules
7	not harm	would	king	horsemen = horseman			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
8	let	would	the king not said here	horsemen = horseman			tree rules
9	keep	infinitive	horsemen = horseman not said here	horsemen's noses			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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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