Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 27
He bade the man get up and take his oars again.
Who acts: Caesar · What happens: bade, get up, take · To what, where: man, oars
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bade | obj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bade | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 get | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 get | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 oars | nmod:poss |
| 10 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 take | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Caesar | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get up | infinitive | Caesar not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | Caesar not said here | Caesar's oars | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=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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