Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 24

I have a pleasant story about locusts which I would like to relate."

Who acts: I · What happens: have, like, relate · To what, where: pleasant story, locusts

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 locusts	case
7	locusts	locust	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 story	nmod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 like	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 locusts	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 relate	mark
13	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a pleasant story	about locusts	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
2	like	would	I	locusts		tree rules
3	relate not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme

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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