Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 39

Is all well with Rome?" he asked; and he called to his wife to bring him his cloak.

Who acts: Rome · What happens: be, ask, call, bring · To what, where: wife, cloak, Rome · 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 (Rome), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Rome	cop
2	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 Rome	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 all	fixed
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Rome	case
5	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Rome	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Rome	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 called	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	nsubj
13	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bring	mark
18	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 called	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bring	obj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cloak	nmod:poss
21	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bring	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present				with Rome; all property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	Rome				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	call in a quote	past	Rome		Rome's wife		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
4	bring in a quote	to-infinitive	Rome not said here	Rome's cloak	Rome		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination cloak=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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