Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 53

But come, now we will sup in earnest."

Who acts: you, we · What happens: come, sup · To what, where: earnest

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 (you, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 come	cc
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sup	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sup	advmod
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sup	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sup	aux
7	sup	sup	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 come	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 earnest	case
9	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sup	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sup	future	we			earnest	now		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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