Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 18
"Will you make me kill my boy?" he said.
Who acts: you, boy · What happens: make, kill, say · To what, where: boy · 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 (you, boy), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 boy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | future | you | boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | infinitive | boy not said here | my boy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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