Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 39

Some wanted to say, "To the animal kingdom."

Who acts: Some · What happens: want, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kingdom	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 kingdom	punct
7	To	to	ADP	_	10 kingdom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kingdom	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kingdom	compound
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 kingdom	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 kingdom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Some						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Some not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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