Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 19
At an-oth-er time, Caesar was crossing a narrow sea in a boat.
Who acts: Caesar · What happens: cross · To what, where: narrow sea
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 oth | punct |
| 4 | oth | oth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 er | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 oth | punct |
| 6 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | compound |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crossing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 9 | Caesar | Caesar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 crossing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 crossing | aux |
| 11 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 13 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sea | amod |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crossing | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crossing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 crossing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · progressive | Caesar | a narrow sea | time | in a boat | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Patient in boat=Topic |
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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