The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 58

The man who keeps his promise at all costs to himself is the man I can trust, both for myself and for my people.”

Who acts: man, I, Hankur · What happens: keep, be, trust, promise · To what, where: promise, Hankur, costs, man

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I, Hankur), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 promise	nmod:poss
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 costs	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 costs	det
9	costs	cost	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keeps	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 keeps	obl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 man	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 trust	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 trust	aux
17	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 man	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 myself	punct
19	both	both	CCONJ	_	21 myself	cc:preconj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 myself	case
21	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 man	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 people	cc
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 people	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 people	nmod:poss
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 myself	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the man	Hankur's promise	Hankur	all costs		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent promise=Theme at cost=Location
2	is a	present	the man	the man			for myself	tree rules
3	trust	can	I	the man not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	promise		Hankur					nom promise «communication 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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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