Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 7

Perhaps, by asking each one of them a few ques-tions, we can find out which one of them will be best fitted to rule in your place."

Who acts: we · What happens: ask, find out, fit, rule · To what, where: one, place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (we), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 find	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Perhaps	punct
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 asking	mark
4	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 find	advcl
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asking	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 one	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ques	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ques	amod
11	ques	que	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asking	obj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ques	punct
13	tions	tion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ques	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asking	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 find	compound:prt
19	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fitted	nsubj:pass
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 one	nmod
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fitted	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 fitted	aux:pass
25	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 fitted	advmod
26	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 find	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 rule	mark
28	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fitted	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 place	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 place	nmod:poss
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rule	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund	we not said here	each one of sons			tree rules
2	find out	can	we			perhaps property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fit	future · passive		which one of sons		well property	tree rules
4	rule	to-infinitive			your place		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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