Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 17

It is your bell; but it must never be rung except in case of need.

Who acts: foot, bell · What happens: be, not ring · To what, where: bell, foot

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot, bell), 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	4 bell	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bell	cop
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bell	nmod:poss
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 rung	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 rung	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rung	nsubj:pass
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 rung	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 rung	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 rung	aux:pass
11	rung	ring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bell	acl:relcl
12	except	except	ADP	_	14 case	case
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 case	case
14	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rung	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 need	case
16	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 case	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	foot	your bell					tree rules
2	not ring	must · passive	your bell not said here	foot				except case of need	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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