Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 42

They told him how the army with all the noblest men of Rome had been en-trapped in the mountain pass.

Who acts: cloak · What happens: tell, trap, pass · To what, where: man, army, mountain · 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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 trapped	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 army	det
6	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trapped	nsubj:pass
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 men	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 men	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
10	noblest	noble	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 army	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Rome	case
13	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 men	nmod
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 trapped	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 trapped	aux:pass
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trapped	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 en	punct
18	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 mountain	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mountain	det
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pass	obl
22	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 trapped	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	cloak		man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	trap	past · perfect · passive		the army with all noblest men of Rome			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	pass	infinitive				the mountain	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location

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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