Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 18
Why did they ride thus? and what had happened to the Roman army?
Who acts: mountains · What happens: ride, happen
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 (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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ride | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ride | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ride | nsubj |
| 4 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 ride | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ride | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 happened | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happened | aux |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ride | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 army | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 army | det |
| 13 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 army | amod |
| 14 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happened | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · do-support | mountains = mountain | thus property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | to the Roman army | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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