Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 2
If it should go much farther, there would be no driving it out again.
Who acts: army · What happens: go, be, drive out · To what, where: army
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 (army), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 be | advcl |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 farther | advmod |
| 6 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 be | expl |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 be | aux |
| 10 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 driving | det |
| 12 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 be | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 driving | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 driving | compound:prt |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 driving | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go a condition, not said to happen | should | army | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | would | there | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drive out | gerund | army | again | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
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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