Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 52

And now the Roman army, with the boys and the guards, was coming home with banners flying, and shouts of vic-to-ry; and at their head rode Cincinnatus.

Who acts: Roman army, banners · What happens: come, fly, shout, ride · To what, where: Cincinnatus, head

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 (Roman army, banners), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 coming	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 army	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 army	det
4	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 army	amod
5	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coming	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boys	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 boys	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boys	det
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 army	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 guards	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guards	det
12	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 boys	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 army	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 coming	aux
15	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 coming	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 banners	case
18	banners	banner	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 coming	obl
19	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 banners	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shouts	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shouts	cc
22	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 flying	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 vic	case
24	vic	Vic	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 shouts	obl
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 ry	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 ry	case
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 to	punct
28	ry	ry	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 vic	appos
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 rode	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rode	cc
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rode	obl
34	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shouts	conj
35	Cincinnatus	Cincinnatus	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 rode	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 coming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	the Roman army			with banners; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	gerund	banners not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shout speech: express	present				of vic	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ride	past		Cincinnatus	banners's head		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cincinnatus=Theme

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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