Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 1
There was a man named Cin-cin-na'tus who lived on a little farm not far from the city of Rome.
Who acts: man, cin na'tus · What happens: be, live · To what, where: cin na'tus, little farm
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, cin na'tus), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 na'tus | nsubj |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 na'tus | cop |
| 6 | Cin | Cin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 na'tus | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cin | punct |
| 8 | cin | cin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 na'tus | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 na'tus | punct |
| 10 | na'tus | na'tus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | ccomp |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 na'tus | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 farm | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 farm | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 farm | amod |
| 16 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 far | advmod |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 lived | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 far | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Rome | case |
| 23 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 city | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | a man | cin na'tus | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | cin na'tus | a little farm | far property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=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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