Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 8
If they kept on, they would soon be the masters of the whole country.
Who acts: people · What happens: keep on, be · To what, where: masters
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 kept | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 kept | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 masters | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 masters | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 masters | aux |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 masters | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 masters | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 masters | det |
| 11 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 country | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 masters | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep on | past | people | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | would | people | the masters | of the whole country; soon property | tree rules |
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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