Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 23

Then the rich man began to rub his hands as though some one was pouring water on them. "

Who acts: rich man, one · What happens: begin, rub, pour · To what, where: hands, water

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 (rich man, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rub	mark
7	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rub	obj
10	as	as	ADV	_	7 rub	advmod
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 pouring	mark
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pouring	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pouring	aux
15	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 rub	advcl
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pouring	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pouring	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the rich man		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	rub	to-infinitive	the rich man not said here	man's hands			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	pour	past · progressive	some one	water		on hands = hand	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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