Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 31
Schacabac thought that he un-der-stood the joke, and he made pretense of taking food, and passing it to his mouth.
Who acts: Schacabac, pretense · What happens: think, un-der-stoo, make, take, pass · To what, where: joke, pretense, food, mouth · 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 (Schacabac, pretense), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 un-der-stood | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 un-der-stood | nsubj |
| 5 | un-der-stood | un-der-stoo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 joke | det |
| 7 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 un-der-stood | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 12 | pretense | pretense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 taking | mark |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 pretense | acl |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 passing | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 passing | cc |
| 18 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 passing | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | un-der-stoo | past | Schacabac | the joke | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Schacabac | pretense | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pretense=Product | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | pretense not said here | food | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pass | gerund | Schacabac not said here | food | Schacabac's mouth | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mouth=Recipient |
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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