Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 9

He only said that there was a fine farm by the seashore, and that he would like very much to have it for his own.

Who acts: storm, fine farm · What happens: say, be, like, have · To what, where: farm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Guest.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, fine farm), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 farm	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 farm	amod
9	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 seashore	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 seashore	det
12	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 farm	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 like	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 like	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	18 like	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 have	mark
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 own	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 own	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 have	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	storm				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	past	a fine farm by the seashore		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like	would	storm				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	storm not said here	farm		for storm's own	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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