Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 6

He would not bow down to Gessler himself.

Who acts: man · What happens: not bow down · To what, where: man, Gessler

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bow	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bow	advmod
4	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 bow	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Gessler	case
7	Gessler	Gessler	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bow	obl
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 bow	obl:unmarked
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bow down	would	man	man	Gessler			down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to gessler=Pivot

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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