Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 27

The people of Carthage are afraid, and well they may be.

Who acts: people · What happens: be

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 afraid	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Carthage	case
4	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 be	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 be	cc
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 be	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 be	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 be	aux
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the people of Carthage					afraid property	tree rules
2	be	may	people					well property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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