Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 34

I am ill, and at the best have not long to live.

Who acts: I, best · What happens: be, not be, live

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, best), 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 ill	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 long	cc
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 best	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 best	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 long	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 long	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ill	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 live	mark
13	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 long	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	I	ill property	tree rules
2	not be	present	the best		tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive	the best not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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