Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 40

If you should ever go to Ireland, you may be shown the place where Sir Walter planted the few po-ta-toes which he carried over from America.

Who acts: you, Sir · What happens: go, show, plant, carry over · To what, where: Ireland, you, few ta toes, 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 (you, Sir), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 shown	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Ireland	case
7	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 shown	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 shown	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 shown	aux:pass
12	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shown	obj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 planted	advmod
16	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 planted	nsubj
17	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Sir	flat
18	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 place	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 toes	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 toes	amod
21	po	po	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ta	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 po	punct
23	ta	ta	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 toes	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 ta	punct
25	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 planted	obj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 carried	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carried	nsubj
28	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 toes	acl:relcl
29	over	over	ADV	_	28 carried	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 America	case
31	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 carried	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 shown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go a condition, not said to happen	should	you		Ireland	ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ireland=Initial_Location
2	show	may · passive		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient place=Topic
3	plant	past	Sir	the few ta toes				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
4	carry over	past	Sir	the few ta toes	America		over property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent which=Theme from 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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