Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 6
"Poor Dick ought to have a chance too.
Who acts: Poor Dick · What happens: have · To what, where: chance
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Dick), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dick | amod |
| 3 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 4 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chance | det |
| 8 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | ought | Poor Dick | a chance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
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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