Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 26

I would rather be a star-ling, because it is good-mannered and kind and a joy to every one who sees it, and it never tries to rob or abuse its neigh-bor."

Who acts: I, question, one · What happens: be, see, not try, rob, abuse · To what, where: star ling, question, neigh bor

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, question, one), 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	8 ling	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 ling	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 ling	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 ling	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ling	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ling	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 star	punct
8	ling	ling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mannered	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 mannered	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mannered	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mannered	cop
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mannered	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 good	punct
15	mannered	mannered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ling	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kind	cc
17	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mannered	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 joy	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 joy	det
20	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mannered	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 one	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 joy	nmod
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 sees	nsubj
25	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sees	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tries	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tries	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tries	nsubj
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 tries	advmod
31	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mannered	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 rob	mark
33	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tries	xcomp
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 abuse	cc
35	abuse	abuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 rob	conj
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 bor	nmod:poss
37	neigh	neigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bor	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 neigh	punct
39	bor	bor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 abuse	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ling	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 ling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	would	I	a star ling		tree rules
2	is	present	question		mannered property	tree rules
3	be		question not said here			tree rules
4	see	present	every one	question		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	not try	present	question			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	rob not said to happen	to-infinitive	question not said here			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	abuse	infinitive	question not said here	question's neigh bor		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bor=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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