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title: "Is it true, Cor-ne-li-a, that you have no jewels?" asked her friend… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "Is it true, Cor-ne-li-a, that you have no jewels?" asked her friend. " Who acts: casket, you, friend. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 28

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"Is it true, Cor-ne-li-a, that you have no jewels?" asked her friend. "

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**Who acts:** casket, you, friend · **What happens:** be, have, ask · **To what, where:** jewels · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (casket, you, friend), 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:pg18442:29:28
# text = "Is it true, Cor-ne-li-a, that you have no jewels?" asked her friend. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Cor	Cor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	li	li	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | casket |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | no jewels |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Patient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Cor's friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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