Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 31
He will lead a wicked life, and will die a shameful death.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: lead, die · To what, where: wicked life, shameful death
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 (eagle), 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 lead | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 lead | aux |
| 3 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 life | det |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 life | amod |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lead | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 die | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 die | cc |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 die | aux |
| 10 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lead | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 death | det |
| 12 | shameful | shameful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 death | amod |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 die | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | future | eagle | a wicked life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | future | eagle not said here | a shameful death | 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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