Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 9

They per-suad-ed another tribe of bold war-riors to help them, and then marched toward the city, plun-der-ing and robbing as they came.

Who acts: plun, people · What happens: help, march, ing, rob, come · To what, where: people, city

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 (plun, people), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ed	nsubj
2	per	per	ADP	_	6 ed	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 per	punct
4	suad	suad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ed	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 suad	punct
6	ed	ed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 tribe	det
8	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ed	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 riors	case
10	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 riors	amod
11	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 riors	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 war	punct
13	riors	rior	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tribe	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 help	mark
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 riors	acl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 help	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 marched	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 marched	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 marched	advmod
20	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tribe	conj
21	toward	toward	ADP	_	23 city	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 city	det
23	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marched	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ing	punct
25	plun	plun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ing	nsubj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 plun	punct
27	der	der	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ing	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 ing	punct
29	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 city	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 robbing	cc
31	robbing	rob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 ing	conj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 robbing	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive		people			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
2	march	past			the city	then	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward city=Trajectory
3	ing		plun				tree rules
4	rob	gerund	plun not said here				tree rules
5	come	past	people				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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