Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 16

"In the first place," they said, "you must tell the Romans about the battles which you have lost, and you must make it plain to them that they have not gained any-thing by the war.

Who acts: Romans, you, battle · What happens: say, tell, lose, make, plain, not gain · To what, where: first place, Romans, battles, battle, thing · 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 (Romans, you, battle), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	5 place	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Romans	det
16	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 tell	obj
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 battles	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 battles	det
19	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tell	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lost	nsubj:pass
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 lost	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lost	aux
23	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 battles	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 make	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	obj
30	plain	plain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 make	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 plain	obl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 gained	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gained	nsubj
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 gained	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 gained	advmod
37	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 plain	advcl
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 thing	det
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 any	punct
40	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gained	obj
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 war	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 war	det
43	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gained	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Romans = roman			the first place		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	you		the Romans		about the battles	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent roman=Recipient about battle=Topic
3	lose in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the battles				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	make in a quote	must	you	battle				tree rules
5	plain in a quote	infinitive	battle not said here		Romans = roman			tree rules
6	not gain in a quote	present · perfect	Romans = roman	any thing			by the war	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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