Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 42

But, to tell you the truth, I am only his poor shepherd, and I have come to beg your pardon for him and for me."

Who acts: I, your · What happens: tell, be, come, beg, pardon · To what, where: truth, you, poor shepherd, pardon · 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 (I, 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 tell	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shepherd	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 shepherd	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 shepherd	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 shepherd	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shepherd	nmod:poss
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shepherd	amod
14	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 come	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 tell	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 beg	mark
21	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	xcomp
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 pardon	nmod:poss
23	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beg	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 beg	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 me	cc
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 him	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the truth	you		tree rules
2	is a	present	I	abbot's poor shepherd			tree rules
3	come	present · perfect	I				tree rules
4	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	I not said here	your pardon		for abbot	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient for he=Topic
5	pardon		your				nom pardon «act 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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