Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 27

He at once made a bargain with the captain for all the goods on board the ship; and then he gave him ten times as much for the cat as all the rest came to.

Who acts: king, rest · What happens: make, give, come · To what, where: bargain, much, English

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, rest), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 made	obl
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bargain	det
6	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 captain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 captain	det
9	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bargain	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 goods	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 goods	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 goods	det
13	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 captain	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 ship	case
15	board	board	ADP	_	17 ship	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ship	det
17	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goods	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gave	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 gave	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	iobj
24	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 times	nummod
25	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gave	obl:unmarked
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gave	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 cat	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cat	det
30	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 much	nmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 rest	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rest	det
34	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 much	advcl
36	to	too	ADV	Typo=Yes	35 came	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	king	a bargain			with the captain for all goods on the ship	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product
2	give	past	king	much	English	then; time	for the cat	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient much=Theme for cat=Asset
3	come	past	all rest					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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