Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 18
"Very well," said Regulus, "I promise you, that, if they will not make peace, I will come back to prison."
Who acts: Regulus, Romans · What happens: say, promise, not make, come back · To what, where: that, you, peace, prison · 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 (Regulus, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Regulus | Regulus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promise | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 promise | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 promise | nsubj |
| 11 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 promise | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 that | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 promise | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 that | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 make | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 make | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 make | advmod |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promise | advcl |
| 21 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 prison | case |
| 28 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Regulus | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | Regulus | that | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal that=Theme | |||
| 3 | not make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | Romans = roman | peace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | ||||
| 4 | come back in a quote | future | Regulus | 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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