Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 48

If I had you in my hands, I would wring your neck!"

Who acts: I · What happens: have, wring · To what, where: you, hands, neck

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wring	advcl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 had	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wring	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wring	aux
11	wring	wring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 neck	nmod:poss
13	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wring	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 wring	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 wring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	you		my hands			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	wring	would	I	your neck					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=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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