Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 35
Help yourself, and remember that other good things are coming."
Who acts: you, other good things · What happens: help, remember, come · To what, where: yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, other good things), 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 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 remember | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 remember | cc |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Help | conj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 coming | mark |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 coming | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 coming | aux |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 remember | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | yourself | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | remember | infinitive | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | present · progressive | other good things | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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