Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 39
He had kept them out of Rome, but he had done a deed which they could not help but praise.
Who acts: spake, men · What happens: keep, do, not help, praise · To what, where: spake, Rome, deed
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, men), 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 | 3 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | aux |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 Rome | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Rome | case |
| 7 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 done | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 kept | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deed | det |
| 14 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 done | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 help | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 help | advmod |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 deed | acl:relcl |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 praise | cc |
| 21 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 help | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect · passive | spake = speak | Rome | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme they=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | spake = speak | a deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not help | could | men = man | a deed | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | praise | infinitive | men = man not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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