Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 31

What if some great wrong should be done before it came?

Who acts: child · What happens: do, come · To what, where: great wrong

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 done	mark
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 wrong	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wrong	amod
5	wrong	wrong	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	nsubj:pass
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 What	acl:relcl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should · passive		some great wrong					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	come	past	child						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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