Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 13

He sat down at a table in the banquet hall, and rich foods were placed before him.

Who acts: Damocles · What happens: sit down, place · To what, where: table, rich foods

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Damocles), 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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
9	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hall	compound
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 placed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 placed	cc
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 foods	amod
14	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 placed	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 placed	aux:pass
16	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 placed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Damocles			a table		in the banquet hall	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
2	place	past · passive		rich foods			before Damocles		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination

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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