Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 6
It so happened after a while, that Reg-u-lus was taken pris-on-er and carried to Carthage.
Who acts: It · What happens: happen, take, carry · To what, where: Reg u lus, er, Carthage
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 while | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 taken | mark |
| 9 | Reg | Reg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lus | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Reg | punct |
| 11 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lus | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 u | punct |
| 13 | lus | lu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 16 | pris | pris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | obj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 pris | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 er | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 on | punct |
| 20 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Carthage | case |
| 24 | Carthage | Carthage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | while | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | Reg u lus | er | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme pris=Destination | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Carthage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to carthage=Destination |
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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