The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 12

People who are going to be their country's deliverers never scream and say they want to go home."

Who acts: People, country deliverers, deliverers · What happens: go, be, not scream, say, want · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, country deliverers, deliverers), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 going	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 going	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 country	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 country	cop
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 country	nmod:poss
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deliverers	compound
9	's	's	PART	_	8 country	case
10	deliverers	deliverer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 scream	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 scream	advmod
12	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 say	cc
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 scream	conj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
16	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 say	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 want	xcomp
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	People		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive		's People's country	tree rules
3	not scream speech: express	present	country deliverers		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	country deliverers not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	want	present	deliverers = deliverer		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	deliverers = deliverer not said here	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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