Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 10

"If I only knew who killed that cherry tree," he cried, "I would--yes, I would"--

Who acts: father · What happens: know, kill, cry · To what, where: cherry tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, George Washington and His Hatchet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	_	5 knew	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 knew	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 knew	advmod
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 killed	nsubj
7	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	ccomp
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 tree	det
9	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	nsubj
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 would	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 would	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 would	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	ccomp
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 would	punct
20	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	23 would	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 yes	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 would	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 would	conj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 would	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know in a quote	past	father		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	kill in a quote	past		that cherry tree	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	father		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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