Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 17

I was going to befriend you, and you repay me by trying to kill me.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: go, befriend, repay, try, kill · To what, where: you, me

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Soldier.. 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 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 befriend	mark
5	befriend	befriend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 befriend	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 repay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 repay	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 repay	nsubj
10	repay	repay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 repay	obj
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 trying	mark
13	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 repay	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 kill	mark
15	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 trying	xcomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 kill	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	I			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	befriend	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		tree rules
3	repay	present	you		me	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	try	gerund	you not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	me		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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