Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 5

Indeed, I am at a loss to know which one of the three ought to be the king when I am gone."

Who acts: I, three · What happens: be, know · To what, where: loss, one

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, three), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 loss	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 loss	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 loss	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 loss	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 loss	det
7	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 know	mark
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 loss	acl
10	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 know	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	19 king	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 king	nsubj
15	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 king	aux
16	to	to	PART	_	19 king	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 king	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 gone	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 gone	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 gone	cop
23	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 know	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 loss	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 loss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		a loss	indeed property	tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive		which one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	is	ought	three			of the king	tree rules
4	is	present	I			gone property	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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