Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 36
Let me go back to my old home in the poor little cot-tage among the mountains."
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, go back · To what, where: me, poor little cot tage
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 home | amod |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tage | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tage | amod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tage | amod |
| 13 | cot | cot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tage | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 cot | punct |
| 15 | tage | tage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 mountains | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountains | det |
| 18 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go back | infinitive | me not said here | the poor little cot tage | to my old home result; among the mountains | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
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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