--- title: "Yes," said Di-o-nys-i-us, "I know there is a sword above your head,… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: "Yes," said Di-o-nys-i-us, "I know there is a sword above your head, and that it may fall at any moment. Who acts: Di, sword, head. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/33/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / [The Sword of Damocles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/33/) / 30 # Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 30 "Yes," said Di-o-nys-i-us, "I know there is a sword above your head, and that it may fall at any moment. **Who acts:** Di, sword, head · **What happens:** say, know, be, fall · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Di, sword, head), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg18442:33:30 # text = "Yes," said Di-o-nys-i-us, "I know there is a sword above your head, and that it may fall at any moment. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Di Di PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 14 case _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 nys ny NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 23 above above ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Di of us | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Di of us *= di* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a sword above your head | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fall** *in a quote* | may | head | | | | moment | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/33/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/33/31/) - ↑ back to [The Sword of Damocles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/33/)