Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 15
If she will do what you say, I will load your ship with gold."
Who acts: Whittington, you, I · What happens: do, say, load · To what, where: ship · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whittington, you, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 load | advcl |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 load | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 load | aux |
| 11 | load | load | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ship | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 load | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 load | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 load | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 load | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | future | Whittington | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | load | future | I | your ship | with gold | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent ship=Destination with gold=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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