Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 38
Then Cincinnatus wondered what they could mean. "
Who acts: Cincinnatus, cloak · What happens: wonder, mean · 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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wondered | advmod |
| 2 | Cincinnatus | Cincinnatus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wondered | nsubj |
| 3 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 mean | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | aux |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wondered | ccomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wondered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | Cincinnatus | then | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | mean | could | cloak | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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