Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 33

But he was a strong man, and the best swimmer in Rome.

Who acts: spake · What happens: be · To what, where: strong man

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 man	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 swimmer	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 swimmer	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 swimmer	det
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 swimmer	amod
11	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Rome	case
13	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 swimmer	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	spake = speak	a strong man and the best swimmer in Rome					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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