Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 21

The wind blew hard; the waves dashed high; the lightning flashed; the thunder rolled.

Who acts: wind, lightning, thunder · What happens: blow, dash, flash, roll · To what, where: waves

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 (wind, lightning, thunder), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 blew	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 waves	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 waves	det
7	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blew	obl
8	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 waves	acl
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dashed	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 flashed	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lightning	det
12	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flashed	nsubj
13	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 rolled	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thunder	det
16	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rolled	nsubj
17	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind	the waves	hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	dash	participle		the waves not said here	high property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flash	past	the lightning			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	roll	past	the thunder			vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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