Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 39

Who are you, that you talk of making statues on an hour's notice?"

Who acts: you, hour · What happens: be, talk, make, notice · To what, where: statues, notice

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hour), 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	7 talk	obl
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Who	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Who	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 talk	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 talk	nsubj
7	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 making	mark
9	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 talk	advcl
10	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 making	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 notice	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hour	det
13	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 notice	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 hour	case
15	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 making	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	you			tree rules
2	talk	present	you			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	gerund	you not said here	statues	a hour's notice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset statue=Product
4	notice		a hour			nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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