Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 14

It was as much as to say, "We are not afraid of you so long as the little word 'if' stands in your way."

Who acts: IF, We, little word · What happens: be, say, not be, stand · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Laconic Answer.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IF, We, little word), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 much	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 much	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 say	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
10	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 afraid	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 afraid	advmod
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 afraid	obl
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 afraid	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 word	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 word	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 word	amod
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 afraid	obl
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 word	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 stands	mark
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 stands	punct
25	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 word	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 way	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 way	nmod:poss
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stands	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 much	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 much	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	IF		much property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	present	We		of you; as the little word; afraid, long property	tree rules
4	stand a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the little word not said here	your way		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location

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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