Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 15

Some of the fine of-fi-cers who were with Caesar laughed.

Who acts: fi cers · What happens: be

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 (fi cers), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 fine	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 fine	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fine	det
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 cers	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 of	punct
7	fi	fi	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cers	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fi	punct
9	cers	cer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fine	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 laughed	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 laughed	cop
12	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 laughed	mark
13	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 laughed	nsubj
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cers	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fi cers					laugh property	tree rules

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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