Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 143
Ah! if the poor plant would only live a few days longer!
Who acts: poor plant · What happens: live
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 (poor 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 live | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plant | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plant | amod |
| 6 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | aux |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 live | advmod |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 days | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 live | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | would | the poor plant | long property | 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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