Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 47

I might sell him; but there is not a man that wants him.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: sell, be, want · To what, where: miser

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 (I, man), 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 sell	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sell	aux
3	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sell	iobj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 is	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sell	advcl
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 man	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 wants	nsubj
13	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 man	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wants	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sell	might	I		miser		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	be	present	a man			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	want	present	a man	miser			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=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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