Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 23
"TO BE TAKEN AS OFTEN AS NE-CES-SI-TY REQUIRES."
Who acts: SI TY · What happens: take, require · To what, where: NE CES
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SI TY), 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 | _ | 4 TAKEN | punct |
| 2 | TO | to | PART | _ | 4 TAKEN | mark |
| 3 | BE | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 TAKEN | aux:pass |
| 4 | TAKEN | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | AS | as | ADV | _ | 6 OFTEN | advmod |
| 6 | OFTEN | often | ADV | _ | 4 TAKEN | advmod |
| 7 | AS | as | ADP | _ | 10 CES | case |
| 8 | NE | ne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 CES | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 NE | punct |
| 10 | CES | ce | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 TAKEN | obl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 CES | punct |
| 12 | SI | si | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 TY | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 SI | punct |
| 14 | TY | ty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 REQUIRES | nsubj |
| 15 | REQUIRES | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 CES | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 TAKEN | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 TAKEN | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | as NE CES; often property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: as ce=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | require in a quote | present | SI TY | NE CES not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ce=Precondition |
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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