Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 44

Then they said, "The people of Rome make you their ruler and the ruler of their city, to do with everything as you choose; and the Fathers bid you come at once and go out against our enemies, the fierce men of the mountains."

Who acts: cloak, people, you, Fathers · What happens: say, make, do, choose, bid, come · To what, where: you · 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, people, you, Fathers), 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 said	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Rome	case
9	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 people	nmod
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ruler	nmod:poss
13	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ruler	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ruler	det
16	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ruler	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 city	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 city	nmod:poss
19	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ruler	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 everything	case
24	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 do	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 choose	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 choose	nsubj
27	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 do	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 bid	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bid	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Fathers	det
31	Fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bid	nsubj
32	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 come	nsubj
34	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 bid	parataxis
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 once	case
36	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 come	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 go	cc
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 come	conj
39	out	out	ADV	_	38 go	advmod
40	against	against	ADP	_	42 enemies	case
41	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 enemies	nmod:poss
42	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 go	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 men	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 men	det
45	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 men	amod
46	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 enemies	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 mountains	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 mountains	det
49	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 men	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	cloak		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	present	the people of Rome	you			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product
3	do in a quote	to-infinitive	the people of Rome not said here			with everything	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	choose in a quote	present	you				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	bid in a quote	past	the Fathers				tree rules
6	come in a quote	present	you				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
7	go out in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			against our enemies and the fierce men of the mountains; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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