Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 4

First the Romans would gain a battle, and then the men of Car-thage would gain a battle; and so the war went on for many years.

Who acts: Romans, men, war · What happens: gain, go on · To what, where: battle

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 (Romans, men, war), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 gain	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Romans	det
3	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 gain	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gain	aux
5	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 battle	det
7	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gain	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gain	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gain	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 gain	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gain	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 thage	case
14	Car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thage	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Car	punct
16	thage	thage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 men	nmod
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 gain	aux
18	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gain	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 battle	det
20	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gain	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 war	det
25	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gain	conj
27	on	on	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 years	case
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 years	amod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 went	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gain	would	the Romans	a battle		first property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme
2	gain	would	the men of Car thage	a battle	then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme
3	go on	past	the war		year		vn function-105.2.1 «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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