Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 27

"Come now," said the Barmecide, "let us have supper."

Who acts: Barmecide, us · What happens: come, say, let, have · To what, where: us, supper · 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Barmecide	det
8	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive			now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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		us		tree rules
4	have in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	supper		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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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