Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 17
One would think that you were trying to be king in my place."
Who acts: One, you · What happens: think, try, be · To what, where: place, king
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 trying | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 trying | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trying | aux |
| 7 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 think | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 king | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 king | cop |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 place | nmod:poss |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trying | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | would | One | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | try | past · progressive | you | my place | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | king | 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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