Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 8

Now there lived among the mountains, not far away, a tribe of fierce, half-wild men, who were at war with the Roman people.

Who acts: fierce wild men · What happens: live, be · To what, where: tribe, mountains, war

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 (fierce wild men), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lived	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 mountains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountains	det
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 away	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 away	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tribe	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tribe	det
13	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	20 men	case
15	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 men	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fierce	punct
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 wild	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 half	punct
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 men	amod
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tribe	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 war	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 war	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 war	cop
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 war	case
25	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 men	nmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 people	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
28	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 war	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	participle		a tribe of fierce wild men		the mountains; there	now	away property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among mountain=Location
2	is	past	fierce wild men			war		with the Roman people	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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