Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 2

The people of Greece were not u-nit-ed like the Romans; but instead there were sev-er-al states, each of which had its own rulers.

Who acts: people, sev, er al states · What happens: not be, be, have · To what, where: u nit ed, er al states, own rulers

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Laconic Answer.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, sev, er al states), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Greece	case
4	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ed	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 ed	advmod
7	u	u	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ed	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 u	punct
9	nit	nit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ed	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 nit	punct
11	ed	ed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 Romans	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Romans	det
14	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 ed	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 states	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 were	cc
17	instead	instead	ADV	_	19 were	advmod
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 were	expl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 states	cop
20	sev	sev	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 states	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 sev	punct
22	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 states	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 al	punct
24	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 states	compound
25	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 each	punct
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 had	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 each	nmod
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ed	parataxis
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 rulers	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rulers	amod
33	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	the people of Greece	u nit ed	like the Romans	tree rules
2	is a	past	sev	er al states		tree rules
3	have	past	er al states	sev's own rulers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruler=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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