Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 33
"Boy," said the old man, "bring on the roast goose.--Now, my good friend, try this choice piece from the breast.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: say, bring, try · To what, where: choice piece, breast · 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 (Boy), 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 Boy | punct |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boy | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boy | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 goose | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 goose | det |
| 14 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 goose | compound |
| 15 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 friend | punct |
| 18 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 friend | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 friend | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 friend | amod |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 try | punct |
| 24 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | parataxis |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 piece | det |
| 26 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 piece | compound |
| 27 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 try | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 breast | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 breast | det |
| 30 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 piece | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | Boy not said here | on the roast goose | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on goose=Destination | ||||
| 3 | try in a quote | infinitive | this choice piece | the breast | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality |
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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