Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 127
The stones of the prison yard would not let the plant live.
Who acts: stones, plant · What happens: not let, live · To what, where: plant
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stones, plant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stones | det |
| 2 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 let | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 yard | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 yard | det |
| 5 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yard | compound |
| 6 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stones | nmod |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 let | advmod |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plant | det |
| 11 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | would | the stones of the prison yard | the plant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the plant not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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