Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 20

Your fault is plain, and unless you can answer me three questions, your head shall be cut off, and all your riches shall be mine."

Who acts: fault, you, riches, Your · What happens: be, answer, cut off, fault · To what, where: three questions, me, head, mine

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 (fault, you, riches, Your), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fault	nmod:poss
2	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plain	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plain	cop
4	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answer	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 answer	cc
7	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	10 answer	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 answer	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 answer	aux
10	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 plain	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 answer	obj
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 questions	nummod
13	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 answer	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	nsubj:pass
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 cut	aux:pass
19	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 answer	parataxis
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 cut	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mine	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mine	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 riches	det:predet
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 riches	nmod:poss
25	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mine	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 mine	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 mine	cop
28	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 plain	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plain	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 plain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your fault			plain property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	can	you	three questions	me		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Theme question=Eventuality
3	cut off	shall · passive		your head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
4	is a	shall	your riches	mine			tree rules
5	fault		Your				nom fault «act 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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