Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 14
Everybody thought that it would be an easy thing to drive the men of the mountains back to the place where they belonged.
Who acts: Everybody, army, mountains · What happens: think, be, drive, belong · To what, where: easy thing, men, place · 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 (Everybody, army, mountains), 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 thing | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thing | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 thing | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thing | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drive | mark |
| 11 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thing | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drive | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mountains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountains | det |
| 16 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 men | nmod |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 drive | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drive | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 belonged | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 belonged | nsubj |
| 23 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 place | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Everybody | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | would | army | a easy thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | Everybody not said here | the men of the mountains | the place | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme to place=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | belong | past | mountains = mountain | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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