Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 22
"Say not a word," said the Barmecide, "but let us get ready for the feast."
Who acts: Barmecide, us · What happens: not say, say, let, get · To what, where: word, us · 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 (Barmecide, us), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
| 2 | Say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Say | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Say | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Barmecide | det |
| 10 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 get | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 feast | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 feast | det |
| 20 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ready | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Barmecide | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | the Barmecide not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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