Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 40
As for the Romans, they were very grateful to Horatius for having saved their city.
Who acts: men · What happens: be, have, save · To what, where: Horatius, city
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 (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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Romans | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Romans | det |
| 4 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 grateful | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grateful | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grateful | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grateful | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 grateful | advmod |
| 9 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Horatius | case |
| 11 | Horatius | Horatius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 grateful | obl |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 having | mark |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 grateful | advcl |
| 14 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 having | xcomp |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 city | nmod:poss |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saved | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | men = man | Horatius | as the Romans; grateful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | men = man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | save | participle | men = man not said here | men's city | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
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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