Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 16

Use it faith-ful-ly, and I think it will do your husband a great deal of good.

Who acts: you, I, cine · What happens: use, think, do · To what, where: cine, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, cine), 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	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Use	obj
3	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ly	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 faith	punct
5	ful	ful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ly	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ful	punct
7	ly	ly	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 think	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 think	nsubj
11	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Use	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 think	ccomp
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husband	nmod:poss
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 deal	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 deal	amod
19	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 good	case
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 deal	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	cine	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	I		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	future	cine	your husband	tree rules

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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