Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 55

But, before the people could thank him enough for what he had done, he gave back the power to the white-haired Roman Fathers, and went again to his little farm and his plow.

Who acts: people, Cincinnatus · What happens: thank, do, give back, go · To what, where: Cincinnatus, power, white haired Roman Fathers, little farm

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 (people, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 thank	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 thank	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thank	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 thank	aux
7	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thank	obj
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 thank	advmod
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 done	mark
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 done	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 gave	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thank	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 gave	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 power	det
20	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	27 Fathers	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Fathers	det
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Fathers	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 white	punct
25	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Fathers	amod
26	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Fathers	amod
27	Fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gave	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gave	conj
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 farm	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 farm	nmod:poss
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 farm	amod
35	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 plow	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 plow	nmod:poss
38	plow	plow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 farm	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	could	the people		Cincinnatus			enough property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	Cincinnatus						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	give back	past	Cincinnatus	the power	the white haired Roman Fathers				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Theme to father=Recipient
4	go	past	Cincinnatus not said here			Cincinnatus's little farm and Cincinnatus's plow	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location

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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