Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 30

To-morrow I will start back to Carthage and to prison; for I have promised."

Who acts: I · What happens: start back, promise · To what, where: Carthage, I

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 (I), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 morrow	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 start	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 start	aux
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	9 Carthage	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Carthage	case
9	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 start	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 prison	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 prison	mark
12	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Carthage	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 promised	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 promised	nsubj:pass
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 promised	aux
17	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 start	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 start	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 start	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start back	future	I		Carthage and prison			to morrow	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	promise speech: promise	present · perfect · passive		I					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

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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