Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 20
I would rather be an eagle, because it is strong and brave.
Who acts: I, face · What happens: be · To what, where: eagle
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, face), 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 eagle | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 eagle | aux |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 6 eagle | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 eagle | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 strong | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 strong | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 strong | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 strong | cop |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eagle | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brave | cc |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strong | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eagle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | I | a eagle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | face | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | face not said here | tree rules |
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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