Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 8

He was afraid that other men would disobey, and that soon the whole country would rebel against him.

Who acts: Gessler, other men, that · What happens: be, disobey, rebel

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 (Gessler, other men, that), 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	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 disobey	mark
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 disobey	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 disobey	aux
8	disobey	disobey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rebel	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rebel	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 rebel	nsubj
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 rebel	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 country	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rebel	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 rebel	aux
17	rebel	rebel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	conj
18	against	against	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rebel	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Gessler	afraid property	tree rules
2	disobey	would	other men		tree rules
3	rebel	would	that	against Gessler; soon property	vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against he=Maleficiary

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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