Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 21

He began to thank the rich man.

Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: begin, thank · To what, where: rich man

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 thank	mark
4	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thank	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Schacabac						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	Schacabac not said here		the rich man				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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