Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 4

"Only give me leave to go home and say good-by to those whom I love," he said, "and then I will come back and give up my life."

Who acts: you, man, I · What happens: give, leave, go, say, love, come back · To what, where: man, good, life · 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 (you, man, I), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	3 give	advmod
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leave	xcomp
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 say	obj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 those	punct
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 those	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 those	case
15	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 good	obl
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 love	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 love	nsubj
18	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 those	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 come	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 come	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 give	cc
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 come	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 give	compound:prt
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 life	nmod:poss
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here		man			tree rules
2	leave in a quote	infinitive	you not said here					tree rules
3	go in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	good				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=Topic
5	love in a quote	present	man					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	come back in a quote	future	I			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	give up in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	my life				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Source

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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