Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 29

And now, O Roman Fathers! send help to our army at once, or every man will be slain, and our city will be taken."

Who acts: you, man · What happens: send, be, take · To what, where: help, army, city

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 (you, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 send	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 send	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 Fathers	case
5	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Fathers	amod
6	Fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 send	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Fathers	punct
8	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 send	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 army	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 army	nmod:poss
12	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 send	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 send	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 slain	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 slain	cc
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slain	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 slain	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 slain	cop
21	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 send	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 taken	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 taken	cc
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 city	nmod:poss
25	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taken	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 taken	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 taken	aux:pass
28	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 slain	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 send	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	help	our army	now	of Roman Fathers	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent help=Theme of father=Initial_Location to army=Destination
2	is	future	every man				slain property	tree rules
3	take	future · passive		our city				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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