Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 5

Cin-cin-na-tus was so wise and just that every-body trusted him, and asked his advice; and when any one was in trouble, and did not know what to do, his neighbors would say,--

Who acts: Cin, that, one, neighbors · What happens: be, trust, ask, not know, do, say · To what, where: body, advice, trouble · 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 (Cin, that, one, neighbors), 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	Cin	Cin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wise	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Cin	punct
3	cin	cin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cin	appos
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 cin	punct
5	na	na	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tus	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 na	punct
7	tus	tus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wise	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wise	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 wise	advmod
10	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trusted	cc
12	just	just	ADV	_	17 trusted	advmod
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 trusted	nsubj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 body	det
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 every	punct
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trusted	nsubj
17	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wise	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 trusted	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 trusted	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 advice	nmod:poss
23	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asked	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 trouble	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 trouble	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 trouble	advmod
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trouble	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 trouble	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 trouble	case
31	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wise	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 know	cc
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 know	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 know	advmod
36	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 wise	parataxis
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 do	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 know	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 say	punct
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 neighbors	nmod:poss
42	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 say	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 say	aux
44	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 know	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 say	punct
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Cin			wise property	tree rules
2	trust	past	that	body			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	that not said here	Cin's advice			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient
4	is	past	any one		trouble		tree rules
5	not know	past · do-support					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	say speech: assert	would	Cin's neighbors				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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