Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 29

As for me, I have come to bid my wife and children and Rome fare-well.

Who acts: I · What happens: come, bid · To what, where: wife

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 (I), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 me	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 come	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bid	mark
9	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	xcomp
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bid	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 children	cc
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wife	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fare	cc
15	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 fare	compound
16	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wife	conj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 fare	punct
18	well	well	INTJ	_	11 wife	discourse
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	I					as me	tree rules
2	bid	to-infinitive	I not said here	my wife and children and Rome fare					tree rules

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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