Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 40

She brought the cloak; and Cincinnatus wiped the dust from his hands and arms, and threw it over his shoulders.

Who acts: wife, Cincinnatus · What happens: bring, wipe, throw · To what, where: cloak, dust, hands, help, shoulders

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 (wife, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cloak	det
4	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 wiped	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Cincinnatus	cc
7	Cincinnatus	Cincinnatus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wiped	nsubj
8	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dust	det
10	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wiped	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wiped	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 arms	cc
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hands	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 threw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 threw	cc
18	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wiped	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 threw	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 shoulders	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulders	nmod:poss
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 threw	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bring	past	wife	the cloak		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme
2	wipe	past	Cincinnatus	the dust	Cincinnatus's hands and arms	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dust=Theme from hand=Trajectory
3	throw	past		help	Cincinnatus's shoulders	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over shoulder=Destination

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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