Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 17

"Come back! come back, and save your lives!" they cried to Ho-ra-ti-us and the two who were with him.

Who acts: lives, two · What happens: come back, save, cry, be · To what, where: lives, Ho ra ti · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lives, two), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cried	parataxis
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 save	cc
9	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lives	nmod:poss
11	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 save	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	21 ti	case
17	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 ti	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Ho	punct
19	ra	ra	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ti	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 ra	punct
21	ti	ti	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cried	obl
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 us	punct
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 ti	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 him	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 two	det
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 him	nsubj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 him	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 him	cop
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 us	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come back in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	save in a quote	infinitive		your lives			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	lives = life		Ho ra ti us		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to ti=Recipient clause=Topic
5	is	past	the two			with bridge	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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