Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 6

And so a short answer is often spoken of as being _la-con-ic_; that is, as being such an answer as a Lacon would be likely to give.

Who acts: that, Lacon · What happens: speak, _, be, give · To what, where: short answer, la con, answer · 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 (that, Lacon), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 spoken	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	8 spoken	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoken	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 spoken	aux:pass
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 spoken	advmod
8	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 spoken	obl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 _	mark
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 _	aux:pass
12	_	_	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 spoken	advcl
13	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 con	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 la	punct
15	con	con	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 _	obj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 ic	punct
17	ic	ic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 con	amod
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 ic	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 answer	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 answer	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 answer	cop
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 is	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	27 answer	case
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 answer	cop
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 answer	det:predet
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 answer	det
27	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoken	parataxis
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 likely	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 likely	det
30	Lacon	Lacon	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 likely	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 likely	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 likely	cop
33	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 answer	acl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 give	mark
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 likely	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · passive		a short answer	often property	tree rules
2	_	gerund · passive		la con		tree rules
3	is	present	that		as such answer	tree rules
4	is	would	Lacon	such answer not said here	likely property	tree rules
5	give	to-infinitive	Lacon not said here			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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