Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 7

"Let us chop down the big trees in the woods, so that they will block up all the roads that lead into the town," said one of the wise men.

Who acts: us, men, roads, one · What happens: let, chop down, block up, lead, say · To what, where: us, big trees, roads, town · 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 (us, men, roads, one), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	8 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trees	amod
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chop	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 woods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woods	det
11	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trees	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 block	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 block	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 block	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 block	aux
17	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 block	compound:prt
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 roads	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roads	det
21	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 block	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lead	nsubj
23	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 roads	acl:relcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 town	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 town	det
26	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lead	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 block	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 said	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 men	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 men	det
33	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 men	amod
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us		tree rules
2	chop down in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	the big trees in the woods		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
3	block up in a quote	future	men = man	all roads		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme
4	lead in a quote	present	all roads		the town	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into town=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	one of the wise men			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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