Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 29

"You are right," said the man; "and you that stand here and quarrel about nothing, have no more sense in your heads than I have meal in my sack!"

Who acts: You, man · What happens: be, say, stand, quarrel, have · To what, where: more sense, heads, meal, sack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Three Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, man), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 right	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stand	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 stand	nsubj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 stand	nsubj
15	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 stand	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 quarrel	cc
18	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stand	conj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 nothing	case
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 quarrel	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stand	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 sense	det
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 sense	amod
25	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 heads	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 heads	nmod:poss
28	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obl
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 have	advcl
32	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 sack	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 sack	nmod:poss
35	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 stand	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	You			right property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	stand in a quote	present	you		here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	quarrel in a quote	present	you not said here			about nothing	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about nothing=Theme
5	have in a quote	present	you not said here	no more sense	your heads		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
6	have in a quote	present	the man = man	meal	my sack		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient

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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