Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 10
Schacabac went in, and passed through many beautiful rooms, looking for the Barmecide.
Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: go in, pass, look · To what, where: many beautiful rooms
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schacabac), 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 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 passed | cc |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | conj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 rooms | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rooms | amod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rooms | amod |
| 10 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 passed | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Barmecide | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Barmecide | det |
| 15 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looking | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | Schacabac | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | participle | Schacabac not said here | many beautiful rooms | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through room=Location | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Schacabac not said here | for the Barmecide | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for barmecide=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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