Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 22
But they will not see me again, for this day I will give my life for my country.
Who acts: wife, I · What happens: not see, give · To what, where: me, life
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 (wife, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 see | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 country | nmod:poss |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | future | wife | me | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | give | future | I | my life | day | for my country | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Theme for country=Asset |
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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