Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Socrates and His House., sentence 5

"Indeed, there may be little reason," said he; "but, small as the place is, I shall think myself happy if I can fill even it with true friends."

Who acts: you, man · What happens: be, say, think, fill · To what, where: Indeed little reason, man, reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Socrates and His House.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reason	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 be	expl
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 reason	cop
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reason	amod
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reason	parataxis
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 small	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 small	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 small	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 small	punct
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	parataxis
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 place	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 place	det
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 small	obl
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 small	cop
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 think	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 think	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 think	aux
25	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
26	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 think	obj
27	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 think	xcomp
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 fill	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 fill	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fill	aux
31	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 think	advcl
32	even	even	ADV	_	33 it	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fill	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 friends	case
35	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 friends	amod
36	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fill	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Indeed little reason		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present			as the place; small property	tree rules
4	think speech: other in a quote	shall	man	man	happy property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot myself=Theme
5	fill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	man	reason	with true friends	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with friend=Instrument

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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