Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 40

But do not let me hear another word about those horrible locusts!"

Who acts: you, me · What happens: not let, hear · To what, where: me, word

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 let	cc
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 locusts	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 locusts	det
11	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 locusts	amod
12	locusts	locust	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 word	nmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	imperative · do-support	you not said here	me					tree rules
2	hear	infinitive	me not said here	another word				about that horrible locusts	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

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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