Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 45
So Cincinnatus left his plow standing where it was, and hurried to the city.
Who acts: Cincinnatus, plow · What happens: leave, stand, be, hurry · To what, where: plow, city
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 (Cincinnatus, plow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | Cincinnatus | Cincinnatus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 plow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | plow | plow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 plow | acl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 was | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 was | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 standing | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hurried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hurried | cc |
| 12 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 left | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hurried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Cincinnatus | Cincinnatus's plow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Cincinnatus's plow not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | past | plow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hurry | participle | Cincinnatus not said here | the city | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to city=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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