Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 15

Who knows but that she will bring you some profit?"

Who acts: cat · What happens: know, bring · To what, where: profit, you

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 bring	cc
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 bring	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bring	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bring	aux
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knows	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 bring	obj
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 profit	det
10	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	bring	future	cat	some profit	you				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination profit=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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