Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 25

But it will not be wise to make peace.

What happens: not be, make · To what, where: peace

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: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 wise	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wise	expl
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wise	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wise	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 wise	cop
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wise	csubj
9	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	future						wise property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive		peace					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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