Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 13

"It is his own," he said, "and I will not hold back one penny from him."

Who acts: present, Mr. · What happens: be, say, not hold back · To what, where: one penny · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present, Mr.), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 own	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 own	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 own	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 own	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 own	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 own	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hold	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hold	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hold	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hold	advmod
16	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 hold	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 penny	nummod
19	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hold	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hold	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 hold	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	present		own property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Mr.			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not hold back in a quote	future	Mr.	one penny	from Mr.	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=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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