Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 39

Then he bade them good-by, and went bravely back to the prison and the cruel death which he ex-pect-ed.

Who acts: Regulus, cruel death · What happens: bade, go, ex-pect- · To what, where: laws, prison

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, cruel death), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bade	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	nsubj
3	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	obj
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bade	obj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
7	by	by	ADP	_	5 good	fixed
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	conj
11	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	12 back	advmod
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 prison	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prison	det
15	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 death	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 death	det
18	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 death	amod
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 prison	conj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 ex-pect-ed	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ex-pect-ed	nsubj
22	ex-pect-ed	ex-pect-	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 death	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	bade	past	Regulus	laws = law		then	tree rules
2	go	past	Regulus not said here		the prison and the cruel death		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location
3	ex-pect-	past	the cruel death				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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