Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 29

"Make way for lib-er-ty!" he cried, as he dashed right into the lines.

Who acts: lib · What happens: make, cry, dash · To what, where: way, lines · 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 (lib), 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	_	2 Make	punct
2	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	parataxis
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Make	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	9 ty	case
5	lib	lib	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ty	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 lib	punct
7	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ty	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ty	punct
9	ty	ty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Make	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Make	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Make	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dashed	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 dashed	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dashed	nsubj
17	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	conj
18	right	right	ADV	_	21 lines	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 lines	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lines	det
21	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dashed	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	infinitive		way	for er ty	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent way=Product for ty=Asset
2	cry speech: express	past	lib			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dash	past	lib	the lines		vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient

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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