Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 18

I would rather be the head man of a village than the second man in Rome!"

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: head man

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Julius Caesar.. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 man	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 man	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 village	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 village	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Rome	case
16	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 man	nmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	I	the head man				of a village than the second man in Rome	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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