The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 46

“You are the only man who has ever come back from it.”

Who acts: You, only man · What happens: be, come back · To what, where: only man, place

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, only man), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 come	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 man	acl:relcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 come	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	You	the only man					tree rules
2	come back in a quote	present	the only man			place	ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_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: «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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