Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 32
Then he began to chew, and said, "You see, sir, I lose no time."
Who acts: Schacabac, You · What happens: begin, chew, say, see, lose · To what, where: sir · 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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 chew | mark |
| 5 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sir | punct |
| 14 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lose | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 lose | nsubj |
| 17 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lose | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Schacabac | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | chew | to-infinitive | Schacabac not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Schacabac not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | You | sir | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sir=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lose in a quote | present | Schacabac | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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