Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 25

But if you will give me two weeks to think about them, I will do the best that I can."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, think, do · To what, where: me, best

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, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 do	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 give	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 do	advcl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 weeks	nummod
8	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	PART	_	10 think	mark
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 give	advcl
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 think	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 best	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 do	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 can	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 can	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 best	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give a condition, not said to happen	future	you		me	week		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here				about questions = question	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic
3	do	future	I	the best				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality

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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