Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 17

In the second place, you must promise us, that, if they will not make peace, you will come back to your prison."

Who acts: you, Romans · What happens: promise, not make, come back · To what, where: that, us, second place, peace, prison

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 (you, Romans), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 place	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 place	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 place	amod
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 place	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 promise	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	aux
8	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 promise	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 that	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 promise	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 make	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 make	advmod
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 promise	conj
18	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 promise	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 prison	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 prison	nmod:poss
26	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	must	you	that	us	the second place	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	not make a condition, not said to happen	future	Romans = roman	peace			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product
3	come back	future	you			your prison	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location

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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