Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 12

"My good shepherd," said the abbot, "you are very, very kind; and I have a mind to let you try your plan.

Who acts: good shepherd, you, your · What happens: say, be, have, let, try, plan · To what, where: abbot, mind, you, plan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good shepherd, you, your), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 shepherd	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shepherd	nmod:poss
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shepherd	amod
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shepherd	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 shepherd	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 abbot	det
9	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kind	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 kind	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 kind	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 kind	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	17 kind	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kind	punct
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 kind	advmod
17	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mind	det
23	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 let	mark
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	advcl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 plan	nmod:poss
29	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 try	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My good shepherd	the abbot		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent abbot=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	you		kind property	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	My good shepherd = shepherd	a mind		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
4	let in a quote	to-infinitive	My good shepherd = shepherd not said here	you		tree rules
5	try in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your plan		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality
6	plan in a quote		your			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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