Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 16
"The man who has made up his mind to win," said Napoleon, "will never say 'Im-pos-si-ble.'"
Who acts: man, Napoleon, Im, Italy · What happens: make up, win, say, not say, ble, mind · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Napoleon, Im, Italy), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 made | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 made | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 win | mark |
| 11 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 say | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 say | punct |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 say | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 say | advmod |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Im | punct |
| 22 | Im | Im | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 ble | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 pos | punct |
| 24 | pos | pos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Im | appos |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 pos | punct |
| 26 | si | si | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ble | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 si | punct |
| 28 | ble | ble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 say | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up in a quote | present · perfect | the man | Italy's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | win in a quote | to-infinitive | the man not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Napoleon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert in a quote | future | Napoleon not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ble in a quote | Im | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | mind in a quote | Italy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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