Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 56

He had been the ruler of Rome for sixteen days.

Who acts: Cincinnatus · What happens: be · To what, where: ruler

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ruler	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ruler	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 ruler	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ruler	det
5	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Rome	case
7	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ruler	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ruler	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ruler	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	Cincinnatus	the ruler			day	of Rome	tree rules

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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