Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 11

There were not more than fifty of them, all together, and they were led by their may-or, who told each one what to do.

Who acts: fifty · What happens: be, lead, tell, do · To what, where: children, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fifty), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fifty	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	6 fifty	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 more	fixed
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 were	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fifty	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 together	punct
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 together	advmod
11	together	together	ADV	_	2 were	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 led	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 led	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 led	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 led	aux:pass
16	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	parataxis
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 may	mark
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 may	nmod:poss
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 led	conj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 may	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 may	conj
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	obj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 do	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 one	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	fifty of children		there	together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lead	past · passive		children = child			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past		each one			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
4	do	to-infinitive		each one			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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