Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 19

Bring in the water to wash our hands, and then order the cook to hurry the supper."

Who acts: you · What happens: bring, wash, order, hurry · To what, where: water, hands, cook, supper

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), 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	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 water	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wash	mark
6	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bring	advcl
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wash	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 order	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 order	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 order	advmod
12	order	order	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Bring	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cook	det
14	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 order	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hurry	mark
16	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 order	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 supper	det
18	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hurry	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Bring	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here		the water		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	wash	to-infinitive	you not said here	our hands			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	order	infinitive	you not said here	the cook		then	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Theme
4	hurry	to-infinitive	you not said here	the supper			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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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