Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 36

He stopped and greeted them kindly, and waited for them to speak.

Who acts: Cincinnatus · What happens: stop, greet, wait, speak · To what, where: heads · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 greeted	cc
4	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 greeted	obj
6	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	4 greeted	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waited	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 waited	cc
9	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 waited	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 speak	mark
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 waited	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Cincinnatus			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	greet speech: greet	past	Cincinnatus not said here	heads = head	kindly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	wait	past	Cincinnatus not said here		for heads = head	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Cincinnatus not said here			vn talk-37.5 «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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