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title: They would either have to make a new road, or give up the plan al-to… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: They would either have to make a new road, or give up the plan al-to-geth-er, and go on to some other place. Who acts: men. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise Men of Gotham., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 11

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They would either have to make a new road, or give up the plan al-to-geth-er, and go on to some other place.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** have, make, give up, go on · **To what, where:** new road, plan

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:15:11
# text = They would either have to make a new road, or give up the plan al-to-geth-er, and go on to some other place.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	geth	geth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | either *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | a new road |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset road=Product |
| 3 | **give up** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | the plan |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Source |
| 4 | **go on** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to some other place | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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