Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 24

We will play a trick on the old abbot."

Who acts: We · What happens: play · To what, where: trick

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Inchcape Rock.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 play	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 play	aux
3	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trick	det
5	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 play	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 abbot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 abbot	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 abbot	amod
9	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 play	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 play	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	future	We	a trick				on the old abbot	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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