Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 49

I will turn him out to shift for himself, and pick grass by the roadside.

Who acts: I · What happens: turn out, shift, pick · To what, where: miser, grass

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 turn	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shift	mark
7	shift	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 shift	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pick	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pick	cc
12	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	parataxis
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pick	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 roadside	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roadside	det
16	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pick	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn out	future	I	miser		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
2	shift	to-infinitive	I not said here		for miser	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	pick	present		grass	by the roadside	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=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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