Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 72

I am sure he has done you no harm, and we ought to be his friends."

Who acts: I, father · What happens: be, do · To what, where: harm, you, friends

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father), 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 sure	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sure	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 done	iobj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 harm	det
9	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ought	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 ought	nsubj
13	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	17 friends	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 friends	cop
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friends	nmod:poss
17	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ought	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			sure property	tree rules
2	do	present · perfect	father	no harm	you		tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	father's friends			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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