Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 59
"I have found you to be a man of good un-der-stand-ing.
Who acts: Barmecide · What happens: find, be · To what, where: you, man
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 man | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 man | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 un-der-stand-ing | case |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 un-der-stand-ing | amod |
| 12 | un-der-stand-ing | un-der-stand-ing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present · perfect | the Barmecide = barmecide | you | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | the Barmecide = barmecide not said here | a man | of good un-der-stand-ing | 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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