Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 17

You must be almost dead with hunger; and here I have plenty and to spare!"

Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, have, spare · To what, where: plenty

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 (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 dead	cop
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 hunger	case
7	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 have	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	conj
13	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spare	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 spare	mark
16	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dead	conj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	must	You			with hunger; almost, dead property	tree rules
2	have	present	I	plenty	here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
3	spare	to-infinitive	You not said here				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=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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