Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 34

"I have kept it these seven years," said the young man; "I have kept it to give to my bride on our wedding day.

Who acts: young man, story · What happens: keep, say, give · To what, where: story, bride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, story), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 years	det
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 kept	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 kept	aux
19	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kept	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 give	mark
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 kept	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 bride	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bride	nmod:poss
25	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 day	case
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 day	nmod:poss
28	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 day	compound
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present · perfect	the young man = man	story		year	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the young man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep in a quote	present · perfect	the young man = man	story			tree rules
4	give in a quote	to-infinitive	story not said here		my bride	day	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bride=Recipient

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: «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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