Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 16

I would rather lose a dozen cherry trees than that you should tell one false-hood."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: lose, tell · To what, where: dozen cherry trees, one false hood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, George Washington and His Hatchet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 lose	advmod
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dozen	det
6	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 trees	nummod
7	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	obj
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 tell	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 tell	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lose	advcl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hood	nummod
15	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hood	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 false	punct
17	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	I	dozen cherry trees					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	should	you	one false hood					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hood=Recipient

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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