Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 29

"And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of Rome: 'O Tiber! father Tiber!

Who acts: dart, spake · What happens: speak, roll · To what, where: father Tiber · 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 (dart, spake), 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	_	10 rolls	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 spake	cc
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spake	nsubj
4	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rolls	nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
7	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 river	amod
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spake	nmod
9	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 rolls	nsubj
10	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 walls	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 walls	det
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rolls	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Rome	case
15	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 walls	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 Tiber	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 Tiber	punct
18	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	19 Tiber	case
19	Tiber	Tiber	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Tiber	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 Tiber	punct
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Tiber	compound
22	Tiber	Tiber	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rolls	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 rolls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other in a quote		dart					to the noble river	tree rules
2	roll in a quote	present	spake	father Tiber				by the walls of Rome	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wall=Trajectory

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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