Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 10

They boasted that they would tear down the walls of Rome, and burn the houses, and kill all the men, and make slaves of the women and children.

Who acts: people · What happens: boast, tear down, burn, kill, make · To what, where: walls, houses, men, slaves · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 boasted	nsubj
2	boasted	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 tear	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tear	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tear	aux
6	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 boasted	ccomp
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 tear	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tear	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Rome	case
11	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 walls	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 burn	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 burn	cc
14	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 boasted	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 houses	det
16	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 burn	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kill	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kill	cc
19	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 burn	conj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 men	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 men	det
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 kill	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 boasted	conj
26	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 make	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 women	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 women	det
29	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 slaves	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 children	cc
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 women	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 boasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	boast speech: other	past	people		vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tear down	would	people	the walls of Rome	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme
3	burn	infinitive	people not said here	the houses	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	kill	infinitive	people not said here	all men	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
5	make	infinitive	people not said here	slaves of the women and children	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slave=Product

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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