Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 38
You are not only witty, but you are wise, and we will let this answer pass.
Who acts: You, we, this · What happens: not be, be, let, answer · To what, where: this, pass
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, we, this), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 witty | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 witty | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 witty | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 witty | advmod |
| 5 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wise | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 wise | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 wise | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wise | cop |
| 10 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 witty | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | aux |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 witty | conj |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 answer | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 witty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | You | witty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | future | we | this | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | this not said here | pass | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pass=Eventuality |
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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