Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 19

I would have given you all the water, but now you shall have only half."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, have · To what, where: water, you, half

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	4 given	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 given	aux
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 given	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 water	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 have	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 given	parataxis
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 half	advmod
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 have	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would · perfect	I	all water	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient water=Theme
2	have	shall	you	half			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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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