Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 37
"Come," said the Barmecide, "have another piece of the roast lamb.
Who acts: Barmecide · What happens: come, say, have · To what, where: piece · 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 (Barmecide), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Barmecide | det |
| 7 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 piece | det |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lamb | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lamb | det |
| 15 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lamb | compound |
| 16 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Barmecide | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | infinitive | the Barmecide not said here | another piece of the roast lamb | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
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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