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title: 'You are wrong,' said Makoma; 'for I am Makoma, who is "greater" tha… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'You are wrong,' said Makoma; 'for I am Makoma, who is "greater" than you--and you cannot destroy me!' Who acts: You, Makoma, I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 87

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'You are wrong,' said Makoma; 'for I am Makoma, who is "greater" than you--and you cannot destroy me!'

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**Who acts:** You, Makoma, I · **What happens:** be, say, not destroy · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Makoma, I), 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:pg3027:1:87
# text = 'You are wrong,' said Makoma; 'for I am Makoma, who is "greater" than you--and you cannot destroy me!'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Makoma |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for Makoma | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | than you; great *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **destroy** | can | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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