Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 46

I wish we could hear the good abbot's bell."

Who acts: I, we · What happens: wish, hear · To what, where: bell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Inchcape Rock.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 abbot	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 abbot	amod
8	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bell	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 abbot	case
10	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear	could	we	the good abbot's bell					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus

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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