Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 43

"With weeping and with laugh-ter, Still was the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old."

Who acts: Still, Horatius · What happens: be, tell, keep · To what, where: story, bridge · 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 (Still, Horatius), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
2	With	with	ADP	_	3 weeping	case
3	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ter	cc
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 ter	case
6	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ter	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 laugh	punct
8	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weeping	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 story	punct
10	Still	Still	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 story	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 story	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 story	det
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weeping	conj
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
16	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 kept	advmod
18	Horatius	Horatius	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 kept	nsubj
19	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bridge	det
21	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kept	obj
22	In	in	ADP	_	25 days	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 days	det
24	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 days	amod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 kept	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 old	case
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 days	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Still	the story			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	participle				with weeping and laugh ter and the story	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep in a quote	past	Horatius	the bridge	day	well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=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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