Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 67

"Let us ride back to London, and tell the king all about them," said the sheriff.

Who acts: us, sheriff · What happens: let, ride, tell, say · To what, where: us, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise 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 (us, sheriff), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 ride	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 London	case
7	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 back	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	all	all	ADV	_	15 them	advmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sheriff	det
20	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
2	ride in a quote	infinitive	us not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			the king	about people	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent king=Recipient about they=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	the sheriff				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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