Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 18
"If we cannot break their ranks," said the Swiss, "we have no chance for fight, and our country will be lost!"
Who acts: we · What happens: not break, say, have, lose · To what, where: ranks, Swiss, chance, country · 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), 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 | _ | 6 break | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 break | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 break | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 break | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 break | advmod |
| 6 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ranks | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 break | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Swiss | det |
| 13 | Swiss | Swiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 chance | det |
| 19 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 fight | case |
| 21 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lost | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lost | cc |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 country | nmod:poss |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 lost | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 lost | aux:pass |
| 28 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 lost | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not break a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | we | spears's ranks | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rank=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Swiss | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | no chance | for fight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | |||
| 4 | lose in a quote | future · passive | our country | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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