Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 15
Go and take the farm for yourself."
Who acts: you · What happens: go, take · To what, where: farm
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Guest.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 take | cc |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 farm | det |
| 5 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 yourself | case |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 take | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | the farm | for yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent farm=Theme for yourself=Beneficiary |
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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