Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 12
Every man in Rome was a soldier, and the army which went out to fight the robbers was the finest in the world.
Who acts: man, army · What happens: be, go out, fight · To what, where: soldier, robbers, world
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, army), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soldier | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Rome | case |
| 4 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 soldier | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 soldier | det |
| 7 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 finest | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 finest | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 army | det |
| 11 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finest | nsubj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 army | acl:relcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fight | mark |
| 16 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 robbers | det |
| 18 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fight | obj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 finest | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 finest | det |
| 21 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 soldier | appos |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finest | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 soldier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | every man in Rome | a soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | the army | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | the army not said here | the robbers | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the army | the world | fine property | tree rules |
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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