Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 12
These simple people stood by the roadside and watched Caesar pass.
Who acts: simple people, Caesar · What happens: stand, watch, pass · To what, where: Caesar
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 (simple people, Caesar), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 people | det |
| 2 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 roadside | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roadside | det |
| 7 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 watched | cc |
| 9 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 10 | Caesar | Caesar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | obj |
| 11 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 watched | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | this simple people | by the roadside | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by roadside=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | this simple people not said here | Caesar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | infinitive | Caesar not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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