Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 43

Here is a poem about him that your teacher may read to you, and perhaps, after a while, you may learn it by heart.

Who acts: teacher, you · What happens: be, read, learn · To what, where: poem, you, teacher

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teacher, you), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 poem	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poem	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poem	det
4	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poem	nmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 read	mark
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teacher	nmod:poss
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 read	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 read	aux
11	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 poem	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 read	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 learn	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 learn	cc
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	24 learn	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 perhaps	punct
18	after	after	ADP	_	20 while	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 while	det
20	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 learn	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 while	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 learn	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 learn	aux
24	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 read	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 learn	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 heart	case
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 learn	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a poem		here		about man	tree rules
2	read	may	your teacher	a poem not said here	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent poem=Topic to you=Recipient
3	learn	may	you	teacher			while	by heart; perhaps property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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