Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 7
You only want to cheat me, and save your-self."
Who acts: You · What happens: want, cheat, save · To what, where: me, self
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 want | advmod |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cheat | mark |
| 5 | cheat | cheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 cheat | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 save | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 save | cc |
| 9 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | parataxis |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 self | nmod:poss |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 self | punct |
| 12 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 save | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | You | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cheat not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | me | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source | ||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | your self | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent self=Theme |
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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