Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 16
All that there is in this broad land is mine by right; and how do you dare to put me to shame by living in grander style than I?
Who acts: you · What happens: be, dare, put, shame, live · To what, where: All, broad land, mine, me, grander style
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 (you), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 is | obl |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 All | obj |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 land | det |
| 7 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 land | amod |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mine | cop |
| 10 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 land | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 right | case |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mine | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 dare | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dare | cc |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 dare | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dare | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 dare | nsubj |
| 18 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 is | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 put | mark |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dare | xcomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 shame | mark |
| 23 | shame | shame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 put | xcomp |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 living | mark |
| 25 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 shame | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 style | case |
| 27 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 style | amod |
| 28 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 living | obl |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 I | case |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 living | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | All | this broad land; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | mine | by right | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dare | present · do-support | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shame | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | live | gerund | you not said here | grander style | than I | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in style=Location |
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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