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title: When they had fin-ished, and the table had been cleared away, the Ba… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had fin-ished, and the table had been cleared away, the Barmecide said,-- Who acts: hands, Barmecide. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 58

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

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**Who acts:** hands, Barmecide · **What happens:** have, ish, clear away, say · **To what, where:** fin, table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:44:58
# text = When they had fin-ished, and the table had been cleared away, the Barmecide said,--
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	fin	fin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ished	ish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	cleared	clear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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