Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 5
"I am going to the market to buy sheep," said Peter.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: go, buy, say · To what, where: sheep · 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 market | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 market | det |
| 7 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 buy | mark |
| 9 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 10 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 buy | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Peter | to the market | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | buy in a quote | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | sheep | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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