Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 37
At last Sir Walter gave up trying to get people to come to America.
Who acts: Walter, people · What happens: give up, try, get, come · To what, where: people, America
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter, people), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Sir | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sir | amod |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 4 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 gave | compound:prt |
| 7 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gave | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 trying | xcomp |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 get | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 get | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 America | case |
| 14 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | Walter | at last Sir | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | Walter not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Walter not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | people not said here | America | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to america=Initial_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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