Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 11
What could the poor country people do against such foes as these?
Who acts: people · What happens: do · To what, where: poor country
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Arnold Winkelried.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 could | nsubj |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 country | acl:relcl |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 foes | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 foes | amod |
| 10 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 these | case |
| 12 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 foes | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | people | the poor country not said here | against such foes as these | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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