Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 20
Before he was halfway to the farther shore, a storm overtook him.
Who acts: Caesar, storm · What happens: be, overtake · 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 (Caesar, storm), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 shore | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shore | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shore | cop |
| 4 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 8 shore | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shore | det |
| 7 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 shore | amod |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overtook | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shore | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 storm | det |
| 11 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overtook | nsubj |
| 12 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 overtook | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 overtook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Caesar | to the farther shore; halfway property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overtake | past | a storm | Caesar | 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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