Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 37

"Put on your cloak, Cincinnatus," they said, "and hear the words of the Roman people."

Who acts: you, cloak · What happens: put, say, hear, word · To what, where: cloak, words, Roman people · 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 (you, cloak), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
2	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 cloak	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cloak	nmod:poss
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Put	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Cincinnatus	punct
7	Cincinnatus	cincinnatus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cloak	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Put	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hear	cc
15	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Put	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 words	det
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hear	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
20	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 words	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put in a quote	imperative	you not said here		your cloak and Cincinnatus	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	cloak			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hear in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the words of the Roman people		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	word in a quote			the Roman people		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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