Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 58

When they had fin-ished, and the table had been cleared away, the Barmecide said,--

Who acts: hands, Barmecide · What happens: have, ish, clear away, say · To what, where: fin, table · 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 (hands, Barmecide), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 had	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
4	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 fin	punct
6	ished	ish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fin	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cleared	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cleared	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cleared	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cleared	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cleared	aux:pass
13	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 cleared	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Barmecide	det
17	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	hands = hand	fin		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Patient
2	ish	participle		fin not said here		tree rules
3	clear away	past · perfect · passive		the table	away property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
4	say speech: assert	past	the Barmecide			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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