Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 62
And so Schacabac lived with the Barmecide many years, and never again knew what it was to be hungry.
Who acts: Schacabac, house · What happens: live, know, be
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, house), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lived | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 3 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Barmecide | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Barmecide | det |
| 7 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 again | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 knew | advmod |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 knew | obj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hungry | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hungry | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hungry | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hungry | cop |
| 20 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Schacabac | year | with the Barmecide | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with barmecide=Location | |||
| 2 | know | past | Schacabac not said here | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | house | hungry property | 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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