Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 25

Schacabac saw no boy, nor basin, nor water.

Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: see · To what, where: boy

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	Schacabac	Schacabac	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 basin	punct
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 basin	cc
7	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 water	punct
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 water	cc
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Schacabac	no boy				water obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus

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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