Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 10
Yet he knew that the Romans were gaining ground, and the people of Carthage were afraid of being beaten in the end.
Who acts: Carthage, Romans, people · What happens: know, gain, be, beat · To what, where: ground, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carthage, Romans, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 knew | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 gaining | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Romans | det |
| 6 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 gaining | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gaining | aux |
| 8 | gaining | gain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gaining | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 afraid | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Carthage | case |
| 15 | Carthage | Carthage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 people | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | cop |
| 17 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | conj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 beaten | mark |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 beaten | aux:pass |
| 20 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 afraid | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 end | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 end | det |
| 23 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beaten | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Carthage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | gain | past · progressive | the Romans | ground | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the people of Carthage | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beat | gerund · passive | the people of Carthage not said here | in the end | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: in end=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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