Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 4

But he was very rich, and he lived in a fine palace where there were many beautiful and costly things, and he was waited upon by a host of servants who were always ready to do his bidding.

Who acts: king, host · What happens: be, live, wait, do, bid · To what, where: fine palace, king, bidding

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 (king, host), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 rich	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rich	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 rich	advmod
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lived	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 palace	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 palace	det
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 palace	amod
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 were	advmod
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 were	expl
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 palace	acl:relcl
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 costly	cc
20	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beautiful	conj
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 were	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 waited	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 waited	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 waited	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 waited	aux:pass
26	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lived	advcl
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 host	case
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 host	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 host	det
30	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 waited	obl:agent
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 servants	case
32	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 host	nmod
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 ready	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 ready	cop
35	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	36 ready	advmod
36	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 host	acl:relcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 do	mark
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 ready	xcomp
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 bidding	nmod:poss
40	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 do	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	king			rich property	tree rules
2	live	past	king		a fine palace		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
3	wait	past · passive	a host of servants	king			tree rules
4	is	past	a host of servants			always, ready property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	a host of servants not said here	king's bidding			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
6	bid		king				nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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