Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 1
Nearly two thousand years ago there lived in Rome a man whose name was Julius Cae'sar.
Who acts: name, Julius · What happens: live, be, name · To what, where: man, Rome, Julius
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Julius Caesar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Julius), 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 | Nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 3 thousand | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thousand | compound |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 years | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Rome | case |
| 9 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obj |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Julius | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Julius | cop |
| 15 | Julius | Julius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 man | nmod |
| 16 | Cae'sar | Cae'sar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Julius | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a man | Rome; there | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Julius's name | Julius | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | Julius | nom name «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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