Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 1

Once there was a war between the Roman people and the E-trus'cans who lived in the towns on the other side of the Ti-ber River.

Who acts: war, Roman people · What happens: be, live · To what, where: towns

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Horatius At the Bridge.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, Roman people), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 war	det
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	between	between	ADP	_	9 people	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
8	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 war	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 E-trus'cans	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 E-trus'cans	det
12	E-trus'cans	E-trus'can	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 people	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lived	nsubj
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 people	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 towns	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 towns	det
17	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lived	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 side	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 side	amod
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 River	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 River	det
24	Ti	Ti	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 River	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Ti	punct
26	ber	ber	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 River	compound
27	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 side	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a war between the Roman people and the E-trus'cans			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	the Roman people and the E-trus'cans			the towns		on the other side of the Ti ber River	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location

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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