Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 19

We must at least try to save them."

Who acts: We · What happens: try, save · To what, where: least, men

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 try	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 try	aux
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 least	case
4	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 try	obl
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 save	mark
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 save	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	must	We			least			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	We not said here	men = man					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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