Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 9
Have the boys come before you, and then ask them what you please."
Who acts: you, boys · What happens: have, come, ask · To what, where: boys
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 (you, boys), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | ccomp |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ask | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 ask | advmod |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | iobj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 ask | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 what | nsubj |
| 14 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 12 what | discourse |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | present | the boys | before you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before you=Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | boys = boy | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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