Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 10

"Yes, but I will," said Peter.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Three Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 will	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 will	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Yes	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Peter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «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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