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title: If you touch her again, one of us shall never leave this spot." — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: If you touch her again, one of us shall never leave this spot." Who acts: you, one. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 176

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If you touch her again, one of us shall never leave this spot."

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**Who acts:** you, one · **What happens:** touch, not leave · **To what, where:** MIGNON, spot

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one), 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:pg18442:54:176
# text = If you touch her again, one of us shall never leave this spot."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | MIGNON |  |  | again |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | shall | one of us | this spot |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |

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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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