Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 5

His clothing was rags, and his food was the scraps which other people had thrown away.

Who acts: clothing, food · What happens: be, throw away · To what, where: rags, scraps

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 (clothing, food), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 clothing	nmod:poss
2	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rags	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rags	cop
4	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scraps	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 scraps	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scraps	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 scraps	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 scraps	det
11	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rags	nmod
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 thrown	nsubj:pass
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thrown	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thrown	aux
16	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 scraps	acl:relcl
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 thrown	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rags	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	man's clothing	rags		tree rules
2	is a	past	man's food	the scraps		tree rules
3	throw away	past · perfect · passive		the scraps	away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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