Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 36

Schacabac was almost dead with hunger, but he was too polite not to do as he was bidden.

Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: be, not do, bid · To what, where: Schacabac

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), 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	4 dead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 dead	advmod
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 hunger	case
6	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 polite	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 polite	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 polite	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 polite	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 polite	advmod
12	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dead	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 polite	csubj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 bidden	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bidden	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bidden	aux:pass
19	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 do	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Schacabac		with hunger; almost, dead property	tree rules
2	is	past	Schacabac		polite property	tree rules
3	not do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bid	past · passive		Schacabac		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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