Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 15

I would rather be a hawk, for no other bird reminds one so much of a bold and gallant knight."

Who acts: I, other bird · What happens: be, remind · To what, where: hawk, one

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other bird), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hawk	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hawk	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 hawk	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hawk	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hawk	det
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reminds	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 reminds	mark
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 bird	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reminds	nsubj
12	reminds	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hawk	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 reminds	obj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 knight	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 knight	det
18	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knight	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gallant	cc
20	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bold	conj
21	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 much	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hawk	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hawk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	I	a hawk					tree rules
2	remind speech: other	present	no other bird	one					vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

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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