Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 11

He was on the farther side of the river, and when he saw that the Etruscans were so near, he called out to the Romans who were behind him.

Who acts: bridge, Etruscans, Romans · What happens: be, see, call out · To what, where: farther side, Romans

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 (bridge, Etruscans, Romans), 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	6 side	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 side	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
5	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 side	amod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 side	acl:relcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 near	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Etruscans	det
17	Etruscans	Etruscan	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 near	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 near	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 near	advmod
20	near	near	ADV	_	14 saw	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 called	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Romans	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Romans	det
27	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 called	obl
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 him	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 him	cop
30	behind	behind	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 Romans	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 side	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	bridge		the farther side	of the river	tree rules
2	see	past	bridge				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the Etruscans			near property	tree rules
4	call out speech: assert	past	bridge	the Romans			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to roman=Recipient
5	is	past	the Romans			behind Ho	tree rules

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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