Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 11
At first the Romans, who were very proud and brave, did not think there was much danger.
Who acts: Romans, danger · What happens: be, not think · To what, where: Romans · 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 (Romans, danger), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Romans | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Romans | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Romans | det |
| 4 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 think | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proud | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 proud | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 proud | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 proud | advmod |
| 9 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Romans | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brave | cc |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 proud | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Romans | punct |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 think | advmod |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | ccomp |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 danger | advmod |
| 19 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Romans | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Romans not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | the Romans | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | past | danger | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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