Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 41

"I have no money," said Allin, "but I will promise to be your servant."

Who acts: Allin · What happens: have, say, promise, be · To what, where: money, servant · 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 (Allin), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Allin	Allin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Allin	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Allin	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 promise	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 promise	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 promise	aux
15	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	19 servant	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 servant	cop
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 servant	nmod:poss
19	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 promise	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 promise	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Allin	no money	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Allin		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	future	Allin		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		your servant	tree rules

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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