Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 5

Every day a hundred noble men sat down with him to dine; and fifty brave knights, in fine velvet coats and gold chains, waited upon him at his table.

Who acts: hundred noble men, fifty brave knights · What happens: sit down, dine, wait · To what, where: table

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred noble men, fifty brave knights), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
5	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sat	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 dine	mark
12	dine	dine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sat	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 waited	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 waited	cc
15	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 knights	nummod
16	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knights	amod
17	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 waited	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 coats	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 coats	case
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 coats	amod
21	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coats	compound
22	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 knights	appos
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 chains	cc
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chains	compound
25	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 coats	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knights	punct
27	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 waited	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 table	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 table	nmod:poss
32	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 waited	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	hundred noble men		day	with king	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dine	to-infinitive	hundred noble men not said here				vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	past	fifty brave knights	king's table		upon king	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location

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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