Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 13
But if the worst comes to the worst, you shall not die for me.
Who acts: worst, you · What happens: come, not die · To what, where: worst
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 (worst, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 die | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 comes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 worst | det |
| 4 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 die | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 worst | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 worst | det |
| 8 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 comes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 die | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 die | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 die | advmod |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 die | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | the worst | the worst | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bad=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not die | shall | you | for me | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for i=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: «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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