Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 11

But if he is not here on the day which you have set, then I will die in his stead."

Who acts: man, I · What happens: not be, set, die · To what, where: day

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 here	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 here	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 here	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 here	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 here	advmod
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 here	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 set	nsubj:pass
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 set	nsubj:pass
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 set	aux
13	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 day	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 die	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 die	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 die	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 die	aux
18	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 set	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 stead	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 stead	nmod:poss
21	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 die	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	man		day	here property	tree rules
2	set	present · perfect · passive		the day			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
3	die	future	I		then	in man's stead	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in stead=Attribute

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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