Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 6
"How can I know that you will keep your promise?" he said. "
Who acts: man, you, your · What happens: know, keep, say, promise · To what, where: promise · 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 (man, you, your), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 know | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 keep | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | aux |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | advcl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 promise | nmod:poss |
| 11 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | can | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | future | you | your promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | promise in a quote | your | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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