Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 23

Sec-ond-ly, you must tell me how soon I shall ride round the whole world; and lastly, you shall tell me what I think."

Who acts: Sec ond ly, I, you · What happens: tell, ride, think · To what, where: me, whole world · 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 (Sec ond ly, I, 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	Sec	sec	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ly	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sec	punct
3	ond	ond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ly	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ond	punct
5	ly	ly	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ly	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 soon	advmod
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 ride	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ride	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 ride	aux
15	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	advcl
16	round	round	ADP	_	19 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 world	amod
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ride	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tell	cc
22	lastly	lastly	ADV	_	26 tell	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lastly	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 think	obj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 think	nsubj
30	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must	Sec ond ly	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	ride	shall	I		the whole world	soon property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round world=Trajectory
3	tell speech: assert	shall	you	me		lastly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	think speech: other	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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