Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 26

I will break the lines, and then let every man fight as bravely as he can."

Who acts: I, man · What happens: break, let, fight · To what, where: lines, man

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 (I, man), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 break	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 break	aux
3	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lines	det
5	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 break	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 let	advmod
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 break	conj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obj
12	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 bravely	advmod
14	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	12 fight	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 can	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 can	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bravely	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	break	future	I	the lines			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Patient
2	let	infinitive	I not said here	every man	then		tree rules
3	fight	infinitive	every man not said here			bravely property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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