Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 8
"What shall we do?" said the white-haired Fathers who made the laws for the Roman people. "
Who acts: we, white haired Fathers · What happens: do, say, make · To what, where: laws · 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 (we, white haired Fathers), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fathers | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Fathers | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 white | punct |
| 12 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Fathers | amod |
| 13 | Fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Fathers | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 laws | det |
| 17 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 20 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the white haired Fathers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the white haired Fathers | the laws | for the Roman people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent law=Product for people=Beneficiary |
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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