Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 35

Cincinnatus was in the field plowing when the men who had been sent to him came in great haste.

Who acts: Cincinnatus, field, men · What happens: be, plow, send, come · To what, where: field, men, Cincinnatus, great haste

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 (Cincinnatus, field, men), 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	Cincinnatus	cincinnatus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 field	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 field	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 field	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 field	det
5	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	plowing	plow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 field	acl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 came	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sent	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sent	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 sent	aux:pass
13	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 men	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sent	obl
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plowing	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 haste	case
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 haste	amod
19	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 field	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	Cincinnatus			the field	tree rules
2	plow	gerund	the field not said here				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	send	past · perfect · passive		the men	Cincinnatus		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination
4	come	past	the men			great haste	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haste=Location

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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