Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 54
Cincinnatus might then have made himself king; for his word was law, and no man dared lift a finger against him.
Who acts: man, Cincinnatus · What happens: make, be, dare, lift, word · To what, where: Cincinnatus, word law, finger
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 (man, Cincinnatus), 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 | Cincinnatus | cincinnatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 made | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | aux |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 made | obl |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 himself | flat |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 law | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 word | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 word | nmod:poss |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 law | compound |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 law | cop |
| 13 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dared | cc |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dared | nsubj |
| 18 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 19 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dared | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 finger | det |
| 21 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lift | obj |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lift | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | might · perfect · passive | Cincinnatus | then | Cincinnatus obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 2 | is a | past | word law | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dare | past | no man | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lift | infinitive | no man not said here | a finger | against Cincinnatus | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme against he=Destination | |||
| 5 | word | Cincinnatus | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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