Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 9

"To the man that will tell me a story which shall last forever, I will give my fairest daugh-ter for his wife; and I will make him my heir, and he shall be king after me."

Who acts: that, story, I, king · What happens: tell, last, give, make, be · To what, where: story, me, fairest daugh ter, heir, king · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that, story, I, king), 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	_	7 tell	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 man	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tell	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 last	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 last	aux
13	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 story	acl:relcl
14	forever	forever	ADV	_	13 last	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ter	nmod:poss
20	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 ter	amod
21	daugh	daugh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ter	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 daugh	punct
23	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 wife	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 make	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 make	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 make	aux
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	ccomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 make	obj
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 heir	nmod:poss
34	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 king	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 king	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 king	nsubj
38	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 king	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 king	cop
40	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	parataxis
41	after	after	ADP	_	42 me	case
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 king	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	that	a story	me		to the man	tree rules
2	last in a quote	shall	a story				forever property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	give in a quote	future	I	my fairest daugh ter			for king's wife	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent ter=Theme for wife=Asset
4	make in a quote	future	I	my heir	king			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary heir=Product
5	is a in a quote	shall	king	king		after me		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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