Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 29

He will do some great deeds, and make a name for himself; but in the end he will be over-come by his foes, and will die in prison.

Who acts: Robert, foes · What happens: do, make, over-come, die · To what, where: great deeds, name, Robert, end

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 (Robert, foes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 deeds	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deeds	amod
6	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 make	cc
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 do	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 name	det
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 make	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 over-come	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 over-come	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 end	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 end	det
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 over-come	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 over-come	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 over-come	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 over-come	aux:pass
22	over-come	over-come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 do	advcl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 foes	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 foes	nmod:poss
25	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 over-come	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 die	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 die	cc
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 die	aux
29	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 over-come	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 prison	case
31	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 die	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	future	Robert	some great deeds			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
2	make	infinitive	Robert not said here	a name		for Robert	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent name=Product for himself=Asset
3	over-come	future · passive	Robert's foes	Robert	in the end		tree rules
4	die	future	Robert's foes not said here			in prison	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in prison=Attribute

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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