Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 66

It would be a shame to harm such simple people."

Who acts: fool · What happens: be, harm · To what, where: shame, such simple people

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise 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 (fool), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shame	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shame	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 shame	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shame	det
5	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 harm	mark
7	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shame	acl
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
9	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 harm	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shame	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 shame	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	fool	a shame					tree rules
2	harm	to-infinitive		such simple people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

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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