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title: Who are you, that you talk of making statues on an hour's notice?" — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Who are you, that you talk of making statues on an hour's notice?" Who acts: you, hour. 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 39

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Who are you, that you talk of making statues on an hour's notice?"

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**Who acts:** you, hour · **What happens:** be, talk, make, notice · **To what, where:** statues, notice

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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, hour), 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:pg18442:54:39
# text = Who are you, that you talk of making statues on an hour's notice?"
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | you *not said here* | statues |  | a hour's notice |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset statue=Product |
| 4 | **notice** |  | a hour |  |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=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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