Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 60
Your wits are quick, and you are ready always to make the best of everything.
Who acts: wits, you · What happens: be, make · To what, where: best
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 (wits, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wits | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 quick | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 quick | cop |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ready | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ready | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 ready | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | cop |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quick | conj |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 ready | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 best | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 everything | case |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 best | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your wits | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | the best | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product |
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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