Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 73

I promise not to do you any harm.

Who acts: I · What happens: promise, not do · To what, where: harm, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 promise	nsubj
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 do	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 do	iobj
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 harm	det
8	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	I						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do not said to happen	to-infinitive		any harm	you				tree rules

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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