Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 21
You must seek a larger kingdom that will be worthy of you."
Who acts: You, larger kingdom · What happens: seek, be · To what, where: larger kingdom
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, larger kingdom), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 seek | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 seek | aux |
| 3 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kingdom | det |
| 5 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 kingdom | amod |
| 6 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seek | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 worthy | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 worthy | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 worthy | cop |
| 10 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 worthy | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | must | You | a larger kingdom | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | future | a larger kingdom | of you; worthy property | 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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