Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 18

He said, "If Pythias does not come back in time, it will not be his fault.

Who acts: Damon, Pythias, faith · What happens: say, not come back, not be · To what, where: fault · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Damon, Pythias, faith), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
5	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
6	Pythias	Pythias	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 time	case
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fault	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fault	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fault	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 fault	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 fault	cop
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fault	nmod:poss
19	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Damon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	Pythias		time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a in a quote	future	faith	Damon's fault		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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