Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 34

I forget whether I have told you that there was a stave on the rock, driven into it by some buccaneers of long ago to mark the site of buried treasure.

Who acts: I, stave · What happens: forget, tell, be, drive, mark, bury · To what, where: you, stave, site · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 told	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 forget	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stave	det
12	stave	stave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 rock	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rock	det
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stave	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 driven	punct
17	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 driven	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 buccaneers	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 buccaneers	det
22	buccaneers	buccaneer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 driven	obl:agent
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 ago	case
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 ago	advmod
25	ago	ago	ADV	_	22 buccaneers	nmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 mark	mark
27	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 driven	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 site	det
29	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mark	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 treasure	case
31	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 treasure	amod
32	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 site	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	forget	present	I				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	be	past	a stave on the rock			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	drive	participle	I not said here			stave	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into it=Trajectory
5	mark	to-infinitive	I not said here	the site of buried treasure			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent site=Destination
6	bury	participle					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (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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