Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 17

The watchman at the gate knew them, and shouted to them as they gal-loped in.

Who acts: watchman · What happens: know, shout, lope in · To what, where: mountains

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 (watchman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 watchman	det
2	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 gate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watchman	nmod
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shouted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shouted	cc
10	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shouted	obl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 loped	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 loped	nsubj
15	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loped	nsubj:pass
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 loped	punct
17	loped	lope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 shouted	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	17 loped	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	know	past	the watchman at the gate	mountains = mountain		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	shout speech: express	past	the watchman at the gate not said here		mountains = mountain	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
3	lope in	participle · passive		mountains = mountain		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent

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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