Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 50
"Excuse me, my lord," said Schacabac, "I will drink no wine, for it is for-bid-den."
Who acts: Schacabac, wine · What happens: excuse, say, drink, be · To what, where: Schacabac, wine · 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 (Schacabac, wine), 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 Excuse | punct |
| 2 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Excuse | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lord | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lord | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Excuse | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drink | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 drink | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 drink | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 drink | aux |
| 15 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 wine | det |
| 17 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drink | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 den | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 den | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 den | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 den | cop |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 den | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 for | punct |
| 24 | bid | bid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 den | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 bid | punct |
| 26 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drink | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 drink | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse in a quote | infinitive | Schacabac | my lord obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Schacabac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | future | Schacabac | no wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | wine | for bid den | 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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