Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 46

When he passed through the streets, and gave orders as to what should be done, some of the people were afraid, for they knew that he had all power in Rome to do what he pleased.

Who acts: Cincinnatus, some, people · What happens: pass, give, do, be, know, have · To what, where: streets, orders, power, Rome · 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 (Cincinnatus, some, people), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 passed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 streets	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 streets	det
6	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
10	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gave	obj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 done	mark
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 as	fixed
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 done	obj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 done	aux:pass
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 gave	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 afraid	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 afraid	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 some	nmod
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 afraid	cop
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 passed	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 knew	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 afraid	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 knew	ccomp
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 power	det
32	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 Rome	case
34	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 power	nmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 do	mark
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 power	acl
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 pleased	nsubj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 pleased	nsubj
39	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 do	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Cincinnatus		the streets		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through street=Location
2	give	past	Cincinnatus not said here	orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	do	should · passive	Cincinnatus not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
4	is	past	some			afraid property	tree rules
5	know	past	people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	past	Cincinnatus	all power	Rome		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
7	do	to-infinitive	Cincinnatus not said here	all power not said here			vn act-114-1 «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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