Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 48
I will give you four pieces of silver every week as long as you live.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, live · To what, where: four pieces, you
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, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pieces | nummod |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 silver | case |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pieces | nmod |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 week | det |
| 10 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 give | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 live | nsubj |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 long | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | four pieces of silver | you | week | long property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme | |
| 2 | live | present | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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