Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 10

The wise men talked with one another for a little while, and then agreed that the young princes should be brought in, one at a time, and that the same ques-tions should be put to each.

Who acts: wise men · What happens: talk, agree, bring in, put · To what, where: one, young princes, same ques · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise men), 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	3 men	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talked	nsubj
4	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 talked	obl
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	fixed
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 while	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 while	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 while	amod
11	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 agreed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 agreed	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 agreed	advmod
15	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 brought	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princes	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 princes	amod
19	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 brought	nsubj:pass
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 brought	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 brought	aux:pass
22	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 agreed	ccomp
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 brought	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 agreed	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 time	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 put	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 put	cc
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 put	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ques	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 ques	amod
34	ques	que	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 put	nsubj:pass
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 ques	punct
36	tions	tion	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 ques	conj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 put	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 put	aux:pass
39	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 talked	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 each	case
41	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	39 put	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the wise men		while	with one	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent
2	agree speech: agree	past	the wise men not said here	one at a time	then		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring in	should · passive		the young princes			vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
4	put	should · passive		the same ques and tions		to each	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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