Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 32

But we will let that pass, and say that your answer is right.

Who acts: we, that, answer, your · What happens: let, pass, say, be, answer · 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 (we, that, answer, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 let	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 pass	nsubj
6	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 right	mark
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 answer	nmod:poss
12	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	let	future	we		tree rules
2	pass	infinitive	that		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	we not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	your answer	right property	tree rules
5	answer		your		nom answer «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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