Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 53

It would have been well if Sir Walter Raleigh had let it alone.

What happens: let · To what, where: tobacco

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: 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	11 let	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 let	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 let	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 let	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 let	mark
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Walter	nmod:desc
8	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 let	nsubj
9	Raleigh	Raleigh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Walter	flat
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 let	aux
11	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 let	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	would · perfect · passive		tobacco				alone, well property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=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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