Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 9

"O king! put me in prison in place of my friend Pyth-i-as, and let him go to his own country to put his affairs in order, and to bid his friends fare-well.

Who acts: you, man · What happens: put, let, go, bid · To what, where: king, prison, man, own country, affairs, order

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 (you, man), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	5 put	discourse
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl:unmarked
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 king	punct
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 put	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 prison	case
8	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 place	case
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 friend	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friend	nmod:poss
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod
14	Pyth	Pyth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 friend	appos
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 i	punct
16	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 Pyth	conj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 i	punct
18	as	as	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
21	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 put	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 country	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 country	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 country	amod
27	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 put	mark
29	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 affairs	nmod:poss
31	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 put	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 order	case
33	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bid	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bid	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 bid	mark
37	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 let	conj
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 friends	nmod:poss
39	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 bid	obj
40	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bid	obj
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 fare	punct
42	well	well	INTJ	_	37 bid	discourse
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	imperative	you not said here	king	prison	in place of my friend	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in prison=Destination
2	let in a quote	infinitive		man			tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	man not said here		man's own country		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location
4	put in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's affairs	order		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent affair=Theme in order=Destination
5	bid in a quote	to-infinitive		man's friends			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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