Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 15

Schacabac told him about all his troubles, and said that it was now two days since he had tasted bread.

Who acts: Schacabac, beard, Barmecide · What happens: tell, say, be, taste, trouble · To what, where: Barmecide, two days, bread · Speech: someone speaks here

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, beard, Barmecide), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 troubles	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 troubles	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 troubles	nmod:poss
7	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 days	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 days	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 days	cop
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 days	advmod
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 days	nummod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	ccomp
17	since	since	SCONJ	_	20 tasted	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tasted	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tasted	aux
20	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tasted	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Schacabac		Barmecide		about Barmecide's troubles	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about trouble=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Schacabac not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	past	beard	two days		now		tree rules
4	taste	past · perfect	Schacabac	bread				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme bread=Attribute
5	trouble		Barmecide					nom trouble «cognition 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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