Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 36
His wife and little children wept, and his sons begged him not to leave them again.
Who acts: wife, sons · What happens: weep, beg, not leave · To what, where: Carthage, sons · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, sons), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 children | cc |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 children | amod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wife | conj |
| 6 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 begged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 begged | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 begged | nsubj |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wept | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 begged | obj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 leave | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 leave | mark |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 begged | ccomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 leave | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Carthage's wife and little children | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Carthage's sons | Carthage | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | sons = son | again | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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