Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 12
One day some of the rulers of Carthage came to the prison to talk with Regulus.
Who acts: some · What happens: come, talk · To what, where: prison
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 (some), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rulers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rulers | det |
| 6 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 some | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Carthage | case |
| 8 | Carthage | Carthage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rulers | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 prison | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prison | det |
| 12 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 talk | mark |
| 14 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Regulus | case |
| 16 | Regulus | Regulus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 talk | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | some | the prison | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | some not said here | with Regulus | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with regulus=Co-Agent |
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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