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title: Your wits are quick, and you are ready always to make the best of ev… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Your wits are quick, and you are ready always to make the best of everything. Who acts: wits, you. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 60

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Your wits are quick, and you are ready always to make the best of everything.

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**Who acts:** wits, you · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** best

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wits, you), 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:pg18442:44:60
# text = Your wits are quick, and you are ready always to make the best of everything.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your wits |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | always, ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the best |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product |

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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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