Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 39
Take my daughter; be my heir; rule my kingdom.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, be, rule · To what, where: daughter, heir, kingdom
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 (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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 heir | punct |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heir | cop |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heir | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 rule | punct |
| 9 | rule | rule | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rule | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | my daughter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | my heir | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rule | infinitive | you not said here | my kingdom | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
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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