Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 4
But there was one man, named William Tell, who would not do this.
Who acts: one man · What happens: be, name, tell, not do · To what, where: one man, this · 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 (one man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 man | nummod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 named | punct |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 8 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | xcomp |
| 9 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 was | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 do | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Tell | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | one man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | one man not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | one man not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not do | would | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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