Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 19

Rich and poor, old and young, all alike may come; but no one must touch the rope unless he knows that he has been wronged."

Who acts: Rich, one, rope · What happens: come, touch, know, wrong · To what, where: rope · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rich, one, rope), 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	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 come	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 poor	cc
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rich	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rich	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 young	cc
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rich	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 come	nsubj
10	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 all	amod
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 touch	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 touch	cc
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 touch	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 touch	aux
18	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rope	det
20	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 touch	obj
21	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	23 knows	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knows	nsubj
23	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 touch	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 wronged	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wronged	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 wronged	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 wronged	aux:pass
28	wronged	wrong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 knows	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	may	Rich		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	touch	must	no one	the rope	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rope=Co-Theme
3	know a condition, not said to happen	present	rope		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	wrong	present · perfect · passive		rope	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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