Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 4
But in those days it was thought to be a noble thing to till the soil.
What happens: think, be, till · To what, where: work, noble thing, soil · 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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 days | det |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | aux:pass |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 thing | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thing | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 till | mark |
| 14 | till | till | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thing | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 soil | det |
| 16 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 till | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · passive | work | day | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a noble thing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | till | to-infinitive | the soil | tree rules |
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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