Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 20

Rome was not a large city at that time; and soon they reached the market place where the white-haired Fathers were sitting.

Who acts: Rome, mountains, haired Fathers · What happens: not be, reach, sit · To what, where: large city, market place

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 (Rome, mountains, haired Fathers), 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	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 city	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 city	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 city	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 city	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 city	amod
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 city	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 reached	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 reached	cc
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 reached	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reached	nsubj
14	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 city	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 place	det
16	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 place	compound
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reached	obj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 sitting	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Fathers	det
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 haired	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 white	punct
22	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Fathers	amod
23	Fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sitting	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sitting	aux
25	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 place	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 city	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	Rome	a large city	time		tree rules
2	reach	past	mountains = mountain	the market place		soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	sit	past · progressive	the haired Fathers				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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