Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 4
He was a brave warrior, and had con-quered many countries for Rome.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, conquer · To what, where: brave warrior, many countries
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 (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:983): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 5 warrior | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warrior | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 warrior | det |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warrior | amod |
| 5 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 con | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 con | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 con | aux |
| 9 | con | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 warrior | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 con | punct |
| 11 | quered | quered | X | _ | 9 con | goeswith |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 countries | amod |
| 13 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 con | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Rome | case |
| 15 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 con | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warrior | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | man | a brave warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conquer | past · perfect | man not said here | many countries | for Rome | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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