Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 26
Well, then, answer my first question: How long shall I live?
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: answer, live, question · To what, where: first question
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 (you, I, my), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 answer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 answer | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 question | nmod:poss |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 question | amod |
| 8 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 10 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 live | advmod |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 live | nsubj |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answer | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | my first question | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | live | shall | I | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | question | my | nom question «communication 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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