Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 8

He loved his home dearly, but he believed that his first duty was to his country; and so he had left all, to fight in this cruel war.

Who acts: Carthage, first duty · What happens: love, believe, be, leave, fight · To what, where: home, all, cruel war · 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 (Carthage, first duty), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 home	nmod:poss
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obj
5	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	2 loved	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 believed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 believed	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 believed	nsubj
9	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loved	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 country	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 duty	nmod:poss
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 duty	amod
13	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 country	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 country	cop
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 country	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 country	nmod:poss
17	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 believed	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 left	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 left	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 loved	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 left	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fight	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fight	mark
27	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 left	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 war	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 war	det
30	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 war	amod
31	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fight	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past	Carthage	Carthage's home		dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus
2	believe	past	Carthage				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Carthage's first duty			to Carthage's country	tree rules
4	leave	past · perfect	Carthage	all			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
5	fight	to-infinitive	Carthage not said here		this cruel war		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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