Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 10

Then he sent a letter to the Spartans in La-co-ni-a, and said, "If I go down into your country, I will level your great city to the ground."

Who acts: Philip · What happens: send, say, go down, level · To what, where: letter, Spartans, La co ni, country, great city · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Laconic Answer.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Philip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sent	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 letter	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Spartans	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Spartans	det
8	Spartans	Spartan	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 ni	case
10	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 ni	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 La	punct
12	co	co	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ni	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 co	punct
14	ni	no	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 a	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ni	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
22	If	if	SCONJ	_	24 go	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 country	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 country	nmod:poss
28	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 level	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 level	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 level	aux
32	level	level	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 city	nmod:poss
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 city	amod
35	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 level	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 ground	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ground	det
38	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 level	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Philip	a letter	the Spartans	La co ni	then		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to spartan=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	Philip not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go down a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Philip			your country		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	level in a quote	future	Philip	your great city				to the ground	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient

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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