Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 25

He trembled with fear; he could not guide the boat; he fell down upon his knees; he moaned, "All is lost! all is lost!"

Who acts: thunder · What happens: tremble, not guide, fall down, moan, lose · To what, where: boat, knees, All · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trembled	nsubj
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 fear	case
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trembled	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 guide	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 guide	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 guide	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 guide	advmod
9	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trembled	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boat	det
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guide	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trembled	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 fell	advmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 knees	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 knees	nmod:poss
18	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fell	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 moaned	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 moaned	nsubj
21	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trembled	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lost	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 lost	punct
24	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 lost	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 lost	aux:pass
26	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 lost	advcl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 lost	punct
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 lost	nsubj:pass
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 lost	aux:pass
30	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 moaned	ccomp
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 lost	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tremble	past	thunder			with fear	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not guide	could	thunder	the boat			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	fall down	past	thunder		thunder's knees	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon knee=Location
4	moan	past	thunder				vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	lose in a quote	present · passive		All			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	lose in a quote	present · passive		all			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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