Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 30

To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge to-day.'"

Who acts: Romans, you · What happens: pray, take · To what, where: thou, charge

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 (Romans, you), 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 Take	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Romans	det
4	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 pray	nsubj
5	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 life	punct
7	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Roman	det
8	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 life	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Roman	case
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whom	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 arms	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Roman	det
13	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 arms	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Roman	case
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 whom	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct
17	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 Take	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 charge	case
20	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Take	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 day	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 to	punct
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Take	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 Take	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Take	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	present	the Romans						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	take	imperative	you not said here	thou		charge	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to whom=Destination

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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