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title: You are not only witty, but you are wise, and we will let this answe… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: You are not only witty, but you are wise, and we will let this answer pass. Who acts: You, we, this. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 38

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You are not only witty, but you are wise, and we will let this answer pass.

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**Who acts:** You, we, this · **What happens:** not be, be, let, answer · **To what, where:** this, pass

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:10:38
# text = You are not only witty, but you are wise, and we will let this answer pass.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	witty	witty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	_
17	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | witty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | future | we | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | this *not said here* | pass |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pass=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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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