Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 16

"I care not where they jump," said Hodge; "but they shall not go over it."

Who acts: Hodge, sheep · What happens: not care, jump, say, not go · To what, where: bridge · 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 (Hodge, sheep), 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 care	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 care	nsubj
3	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 care	advmod
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 jump	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 jump	nsubj
7	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 care	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 care	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 care	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Hodge	Hodge	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 go	advmod
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not care in a quote	present	Hodge		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	jump in a quote	present	sheep		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Hodge		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not go in a quote	shall	sheep	bridge	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over it=Initial_Location

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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