Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 31

They are worth more than all your gems."

Who acts: jewels · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jewels), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 worth	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 worth	cop
3	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 worth	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 gems	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 gems	det:predet
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gems	nmod:poss
8	gems	gem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 more	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 worth	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	jewels = jewel					worth property	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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