Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 49
Boy, bring on the wine!"
Who acts: Boy · What happens: bring · To what, where: wine
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 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Boy | punct |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 wine | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wine | det |
| 6 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | infinitive | Boy | the wine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wine=Destination |
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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