Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 12
"We must break their lines," cried their leader; "for we cannot harm them while they keep together."
Who acts: We, leader, foes · What happens: break, cry, not harm, keep together · To what, where: lines, foes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, leader, foes), 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 break | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 break | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | aux |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lines | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 break | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 leader | nmod:poss |
| 11 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 harm | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 harm | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 harm | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 harm | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 harm | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 harm | advmod |
| 18 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 break | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 harm | obj |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 keep | nsubj |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 harm | advcl |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 keep | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | must | We | foes's lines | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | foes's leader | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not harm in a quote | can | we | foes = foe | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | keep together in a quote | present | foes = foe | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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