Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 29
And you shall die when you take your last breath, and not one moment before."
Who acts: you · What happens: die, take · To what, where: last breath
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 die | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | aux |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 take | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | advcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 breath | nmod:poss |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 breath | amod |
| 10 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 moment | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 moment | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 moment | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 moment | nummod |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 die | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 moment | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | shall | you | moment | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take | present | you | your last breath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=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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