Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 10

Once when Cae-sar was passing through a little country village, all the men, women, and children of the place came out to see him.

Who acts: Cae sar, children · What happens: pass, come out, see · To what, where: little country village, man

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 (Cae sar, children), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 passing	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 passing	mark
3	Cae	Cae	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sar	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Cae	punct
5	sar	sar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passing	aux
7	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	through	through	ADP	_	12 village	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 village	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 village	amod
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 village	compound
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 men	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 men	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 men	det
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 village	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 women	punct
18	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 men	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 came	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 place	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 place	det
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 children	nmod
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passing	conj
26	out	out	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 came	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 passing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	Cae sar		a little country village	once property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through village=Location
2	come out	past	children of the place			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	see	to-infinitive	children of the place not said here	man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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