Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 75

I say, John, I see the smoke of the redskin camp!”

Who acts: I, redskin camp · What happens: say, see, smoke · To what, where: John, smoke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, redskin camp), 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 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 John	punct
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 smoke	det
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 camp	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 camp	det
12	redskin	redskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 camp	compound
13	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smoke	nmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	I	John	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent john=Topic
2	see	present	I	the smoke of the redskin camp	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus
3	smoke		the redskin camp		nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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