Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 13

No one staid at home with the women and children and boys but the white-haired "Fathers," as they were called, who made the laws for the city, and a small company of men who guarded the walls.

Who acts: one, men · What happens: call, make, guard · To what, where: Fathers, laws, walls · 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 (one, men), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	staid	staid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 one	amod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 women	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 women	det
8	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 children	cc
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 women	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 boys	cc
12	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 women	conj
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 Fathers	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 haired	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 haired	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 white	punct
17	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Fathers	amod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 haired	punct
19	Fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 women	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 called	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 called	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 called	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 called	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 called	aux:pass
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 one	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 made	nsubj
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 laws	det
30	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 made	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 city	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 city	det
33	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 laws	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 company	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 company	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 company	det
37	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 company	amod
38	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 men	case
40	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 company	nmod
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 guarded	nsubj
42	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 men	acl:relcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 walls	det
44	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 guarded	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive		Fathers = father		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	make	past	no one at home with the women and children and boys but haired Fathers	the laws	for the city; a small company of men obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent law=Product for city=Asset
3	guard	past	men	the walls		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Beneficiary

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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