Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 3
The King of England was at war with him, and had led a great army into Scotland to drive him out of the land.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, lead, drive · To what, where: war, great army, Scotland, king, land
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 war | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 England | case |
| 4 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 war | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 war | case |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 war | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 led | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 led | cc |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 led | aux |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 war | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 army | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 army | amod |
| 16 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 Scotland | case |
| 18 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 drive | mark |
| 20 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 led | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drive | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 land | det |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drive | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 war | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King of England | war | with England | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead | past · perfect | a great army | Scotland | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme into scotland=Destination | ||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | king | the land | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out land=Trajectory |
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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