Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 41

They called him Horatius Co'cles, which meant the "one-eyed Horatius," because he had lost an eye in defending the bridge; they caused a fine statue of brass to be made in his honor; and they gave him as much land as he could plow around in a day.

Who acts: men, Horatius, city · What happens: call, mean, lose, defend, cause, make · To what, where: city, eyed Horatius, eye, bridge, fine statue, honor · 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 (men, Horatius, city), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	Horatius	Horatius	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
5	Co'cles	Co'cles	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Horatius	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 meant	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 meant	nsubj
8	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Horatius	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Horatius	det
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Horatius	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 eyed	nummod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
13	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Horatius	amod
14	Horatius	Horatius	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 meant	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Horatius	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Horatius	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 lost	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lost	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lost	aux
20	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 meant	ccomp
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 eye	det
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lost	obj
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 defending	mark
24	defending	defend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 lost	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bridge	det
26	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 defending	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 caused	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 caused	nsubj
29	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 statue	det
31	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 statue	amod
32	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 caused	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 brass	case
34	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 statue	nmod
35	to	to	PART	_	37 made	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 made	aux:pass
37	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 brass	acl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 honor	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 honor	nmod:poss
40	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 gave	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 gave	cc
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 gave	nsubj
44	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 caused	conj
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 gave	iobj
46	as	as	ADP	_	48 land	case
47	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 land	amod
48	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 gave	obl
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 plow	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 plow	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 plow	aux
52	plow	plow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 gave	advcl
53	around	around	ADV	_	52 plow	advmod
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 day	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 day	det
56	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 plow	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	men = man		city				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	mean	past	Horatius	the eyed Horatius					tree rules
3	lose	past · perfect	city	a eye					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality
4	defend	gerund	city not said here	the bridge					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Beneficiary
5	cause	past	men = man	a fine statue of brass					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition statue=Patient
6	make	to-infinitive · passive	men = man not said here			city's honor			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
7	give	past	men = man		city			as much land	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	plow around	could	city				day	around property	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
9	honor		city						nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=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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