Promises to friends and to yourself, sentence 4

Josh promised himself he would save his pocket money for a new football.

Who acts: Josh · What happens: promise, save · To what, where: Josh, pocket money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to friends and to yourself» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Josh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 promised	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 save	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 save	aux
6	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 money	nmod:poss
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	compound
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 save	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 football	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 football	det
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 football	amod
13	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 save	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Josh	Josh					vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	save	would	Josh	Josh's pocket money				for a new football	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for football=Source

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself.lesson:4.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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