Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 31
But why should that trouble you?
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 why | cc |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 trouble | aux |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 trouble | det |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 why | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 trouble | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 why | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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