Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 2

The Roman people were never very friendly to the people of Car-thage, and at last a war began between them.

Who acts: Roman people, last · What happens: not be, begin

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 (Roman people, last), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
2	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 friendly	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 friendly	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 friendly	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 friendly	advmod
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 people	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 friendly	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 thage	case
12	Car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thage	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Car	punct
14	thage	thage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 began	nsubj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 war	det
20	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 last	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 friendly	conj
22	between	between	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 friendly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the Roman people					to the people of Car thage; friendly property	tree rules
2	begin	past	last					between people	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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