Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 57
Poor Schacabac had never had so good a meal in all his life.
Who acts: Poor Schacabac · What happens: not have · To what, where: good meal, life
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 (Poor Schacabac), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Schacabac | amod |
| 2 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 meal | amod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 meal | det |
| 9 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 life | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meal | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past · perfect | Poor Schacabac | a good meal | Schacabac's life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
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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