Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 31

Whom can we send but the guards and the boys? and who is wise enough to lead them, and thus save Rome?"

Who acts: we · What happens: send, be, lead, save · To what, where: guards, Rome

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 (we), 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	Whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 send	obj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 send	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 send	nsubj
4	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 guards	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guards	det
7	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 send	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 boys	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boys	det
10	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 guards	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wise	cc
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 wise	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wise	cop
15	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 send	parataxis
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 wise	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 lead	mark
18	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wise	csubj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lead	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 save	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 save	cc
22	thus	thus	ADV	_	23 save	advmod
23	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lead	conj
24	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 save	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	can	we	the guards and the boys		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent whom=Destination guard=Theme
2	is	present			enough, wise property	tree rules
3	lead	to-infinitive		guards = guard		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	save	infinitive		Rome	thus property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=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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