Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 14
You have served me for a long time, and you shall have your wish.
Who acts: You, your · What happens: serve, have, wish · To what, where: me, wish
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Guest.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 served | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 served | aux |
| 3 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 served | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 served | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 served | parataxis |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wish | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present · perfect | You | me | time | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | |||
| 2 | have | shall | you | your wish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wish | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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