Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 133
Only the highest officers in the land could have such a thing done.
Who acts: highest officers, thing · What happens: have, do · To what, where: thing
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 (highest officers, thing), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 officers | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 officers | det |
| 3 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 officers | amod |
| 4 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 officers | nmod |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 thing | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 have | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | could | the highest officers in the land | such thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | participle | such thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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