Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 26
But he thought that he ought to do as he was bidden; and so, like the Barmecide, he made a pretense of washing.
Who acts: Schacabac, Barmecide · What happens: think, do, bid, make, pretend · To what, where: Schacabac, pretense, washing
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, Barmecide), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 bidden | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bidden | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bidden | aux:pass |
| 12 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 do | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 so | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 made | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Barmecide | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 Barmecide | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Barmecide | det |
| 19 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Barmecide | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pretense | det |
| 24 | pretense | pretense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 washing | case |
| 26 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pretense | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Schacabac | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | ought | Schacabac | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bid | past · passive | Schacabac | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | past | the Barmecide | a pretense of washing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pretense=Product | ||||
| 5 | pretend | washing | nom pretense «act transitive»: of=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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