Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 14
Tell begged the tyrant not to have him make this test of his skill.
Who acts: tyrant · What happens: tell, beg, not have, make, test · To what, where: tyrant, test, skill · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tyrant), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begged | ccomp |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tyrant | det |
| 4 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 begged | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 have | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begged | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 test | det |
| 11 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 skill | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 skill | nmod:poss |
| 14 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 test | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the tyrant | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tyrant=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not have not said to happen | to-infinitive | tyrant | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | tyrant not said here | this test of Gessler's skill | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset test=Product | ||||
| 5 | test | Gessler's skill | nom test «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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