Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 20
When he came to Rome, all the people greeted him gladly.
Who acts: Regulus, people · What happens: come, greet · To what, where: Rome, Regulus
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 (Regulus, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 greeted | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Rome | case |
| 5 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 greeted | nsubj |
| 10 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 greeted | obj |
| 12 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 10 greeted | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Regulus | Rome | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rome=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | all people | Regulus | gladly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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