Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 13
"We should like to make peace with the Roman people," they said, "and we are sure, that, if your rulers at home knew how the war is going, they would be glad to make peace with us.
Who acts: We, people, rulers, war · What happens: like, make, say, be, know, go · To what, where: peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, people, rulers, war), 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 | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sure | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 sure | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sure | cop |
| 21 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 that | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 sure | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 that | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 knew | mark |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 rulers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 knew | nsubj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 home | case |
| 29 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rulers | nmod |
| 30 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 glad | advcl |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 going | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 war | det |
| 33 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 going | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 going | aux |
| 35 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 knew | ccomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 knew | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 glad | nsubj |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 glad | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 glad | cop |
| 40 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sure | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 make | mark |
| 42 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 glad | xcomp |
| 43 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 make | obj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 us | case |
| 45 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 make | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | should | We | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | peace | with the Roman people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | we | that obl; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | your rulers at home | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the war | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | would | rulers = ruler | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | rulers = ruler not said here | peace | with us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product |
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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