Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 30

You said you were hungry: so, now, don't be afraid of the food."

Who acts: You · What happens: say, be, not be · 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 (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	14 afraid	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 so	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 afraid	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 now	punct
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 afraid	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 afraid	cop
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 food	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 food	det
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 afraid	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	You			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	you		hungry property	tree rules
3	not is	infinitive · do-support		now	of the food; afraid property	tree rules

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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