Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 65
Is it not time that we too should leave it?"
Who acts: ship, we · What happens: not be, leave · To what, where: time
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 time | advmod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 leave | obj |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | nsubj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 leave | advmod |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 leave | aux |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 leave | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | ship | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | should | we | time | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme it=Attribute |
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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