Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 20
You can stand a little on one side, so as not to keep the sunshine from me."
Who acts: You · What happens: stand, not keep · To what, where: little, one side, sunshine
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Diogenes the Wise Man.. 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 stand | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stand | aux |
| 3 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stand | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 side | nummod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 keep | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 keep | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stand | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sunshine | det |
| 16 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | can | You | a little | one side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent little=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 2 | not keep | to-infinitive | You not said here | the sunshine | from me | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer sunshine=Beneficiary from i=Eventuality |
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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