Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 3
For a long time it was hard to tell which would prove the stronger.
What happens: be, tell, prove · 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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hard | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hard | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hard | cop |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hard | csubj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 prove | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 prove | aux |
| 12 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stronger | det |
| 14 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 prove | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | time | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | prove | would | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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