Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 20
"And shall this man have your fairest daughter for his wife, and shall he be your heir?"
Who acts: man · What happens: have, be · To what, where: fairest daughter, heir
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 daughter | amod |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heir | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heir | cc |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 heir | aux |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heir | nsubj |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 heir | cop |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heir | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | parataxis |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | this man | your fairest daughter | for man's wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | shall | man | your heir | 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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