Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 19

And so they let him go; for they knew that a great Roman would keep his word.

Who acts: Romans, Regulus, great Roman · What happens: let, go, know, keep, word · To what, where: Regulus, word

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, Regulus, great Roman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 let	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 let	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 knew	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 keep	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Roman	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Roman	amod
14	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 keep	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 keep	aux
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 knew	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 word	nmod:poss
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	present	Romans = roman	Regulus	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Regulus not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	Romans = roman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	keep	would	a great Roman	Regulus's word	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	word		Regulus		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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