Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 4
For, unless they are wise and strong, they cannot keep the kingdom which I have won for them.
Who acts: sons, kingdom · What happens: be, not keep, win · To what, where: kingdom
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 (sons, kingdom), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 wise | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wise | punct |
| 3 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 6 wise | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wise | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wise | cop |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 keep | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 strong | cc |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wise | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wise | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 keep | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 keep | advmod |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kingdom | det |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 won | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 won | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 won | aux |
| 19 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 won | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | sons = son | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | sons = son not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not keep | can | sons = son | the kingdom | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | win | present · perfect | the kingdom | for sons = son | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary |
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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