Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 5

Among the Romans there was a brave gen-er-al named Reg'u-lus,--a man of whom it was said that he never broke his word.

Who acts: brave gen er al, last · What happens: be, name, say, not break, word · To what, where: Romans, Reg'u lus, war, word · 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 (brave gen er al, last), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 Romans	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Romans	det
3	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 was	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 al	det
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 al	amod
8	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 al	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 gen	punct
10	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 al	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 al	punct
12	al	al	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
13	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 al	acl
14	Reg'u	Reg'u	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 lus	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Reg'u	punct
16	lus	lu	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 named	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 al	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 whom	case
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 man	nmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux:pass
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 whom	acl:relcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 broke	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 broke	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 broke	advmod
29	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	ccomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 word	nmod:poss
31	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 broke	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a brave gen er al and a man of a brave gen er al and a man of a brave gen er al		the Romans; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among roman=Location
2	name	participle	a brave gen er al and a man of a brave gen er al and a man of a brave gen er al not said here	Reg'u lus		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lu=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past · passive		war		tree rules
4	not break	past	last	last's word		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient
5	word		last			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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