Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 7

They were dressed in suits of green, and armed with bows and arrows; and sometimes they carried long wooden lances and broad-swords, which they knew how to handle well.

Who acts: men · What happens: dress, carry, know, handle · To what, where: men, suits, wooden lances

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	aux:pass
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 suits	case
5	suits	suit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dressed	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 green	case
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 suits	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 armed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 armed	cc
10	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dressed	advcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 bows	case
12	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 armed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 arrows	cc
14	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bows	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 carried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 carried	cc
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 carried	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	nsubj
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 lances	advmod
21	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lances	amod
22	lances	lance	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 carried	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 swords	cc
24	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 swords	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 broad	punct
26	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lances	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 knew	obj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lances	acl:relcl
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 handle	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 handle	mark
33	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 knew	xcomp
34	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 handle	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive		men = man	suits of green		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	carry	past	men = man	wooden lances and broad swords		sometimes property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lance=Theme
3	know	past	men = man	wooden lances and broad swords			tree rules
4	handle	to-infinitive	men = man not said here			well property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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