Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 4

In the same land there was a poor man whose name was Schac-a-bac.

Who acts: name, Schac · What happens: be, name · To what, where: poor man, same land, Schac

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 (name, Schac), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 land	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 land	amod
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 name	nmod:poss
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Schac	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Schac	cop
13	Schac	Schac	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 man	acl:relcl
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 bac	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bac	det
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 a	punct
17	bac	bac	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Schac	appos
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		a poor man	the same land	tree rules
2	is a	past	Schac's name	Schac		tree rules
3	name		Schac			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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