Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 11
Care has been taken to exclude everything that is not strictly within the limits of probability; hence there is here no trespassing upon the domain of the fairy tale, the fable, or the myth.
Who acts: that · What happens: take, exclude, not be, be, trespass · To what, where: Care, everything
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 exclude | mark |
| 6 | exclude | exclude | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 taken | xcomp |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 exclude | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 strictly | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 strictly | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 strictly | advmod |
| 11 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 7 everything | advmod |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 14 limits | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 limits | det |
| 14 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 exclude | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 probability | case |
| 16 | probability | probability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 limits | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 18 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 20 is | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 is | advmod |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 trespassing | det |
| 23 | trespassing | trespass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 is | advcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 domain | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 domain | det |
| 26 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trespassing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tale | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tale | det |
| 29 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tale | amod |
| 30 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 domain | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fable | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fable | det |
| 33 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tale | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 myth | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 myth | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 myth | det |
| 37 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect · passive | Care | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | exclude | to-infinitive | everything | within the limits of probability | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer everything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | that | strictly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | present | here; there | hence property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | trespass | gerund | upon the domain of the fairy tale and the fable | tree rules |
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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