Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 13
I hope that you will not think ill of me for making things pleasant for my friends and the brave knights who are with me."
Who acts: I, you, brave knights · What happens: hope, not think, make, be · To what, where: things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. 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, brave knights), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 think | advmod |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hope | ccomp |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 think | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ill | obl |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 making | mark |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 think | advcl |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 making | obj |
| 14 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 making | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 friends | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 making | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knights | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knights | det |
| 20 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knights | amod |
| 21 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 friends | conj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 me | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 me | cop |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 knights | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | future | you | ill property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | you not said here | things | for my friends and the brave knights; pleasant property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Product for friend=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | is | present | the brave knights | with me | tree rules |
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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