Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 5

So they kept themselves inside of their walls, and set guards to watch the roads.

Who acts: Romans · What happens: keep, set, watch · To what, where: Romans, guards, roads

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 (Romans), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 kept	obj
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 walls	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 walls	nmod:poss
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 set	cc
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kept	advcl
12	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 set	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 watch	mark
14	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 set	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roads	det
16	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 watch	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Romans = roman	Romans = roman	of Romans's walls; inside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
2	set	infinitive	Romans = roman not said here	guards		tree rules
3	watch	to-infinitive	Romans = roman not said here	the roads		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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