Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 18

"I beg that you won't play tricks with a poor boy like me," he said. "

Who acts: I, you, lad · What happens: beg, not play, say · To what, where: tricks · 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 (I, you, lad), 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	_	3 beg	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 beg	nsubj
3	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 play	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 play	nsubj
6	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 play	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 play	advmod
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 beg	ccomp
9	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 play	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 boy	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 play	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 play	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request in a quote	present	I			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not play in a quote	future	you	tricks	with a poor boy; like me	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with boy=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	lad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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