Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 13

It was the Barmecide; and poor Schacabac bowed low before him, as was the custom in that country.

Who acts: beard, poor Schacabac · What happens: be, bow · To what, where: Barmecide, country

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 (beard, poor 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Barmecide	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Barmecide	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Barmecide	det
4	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 bowed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bowed	cc
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Schacabac	amod
8	Schacabac	Schacabac	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bowed	nsubj
9	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Barmecide	conj
10	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 bowed	advmod
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bowed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 custom	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 custom	case
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 custom	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 custom	det
17	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bowed	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 country	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 country	det
20	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 custom	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Barmecide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	beard	the Barmecide				tree rules
2	bow	past	poor Schacabac			before man	low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3	is	past			that country		as the custom	tree rules

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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