Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 5
Six times had Bruce led his brave little army against his foes; and six times had his men been beaten, and driven into flight.
Who acts: Bruce · What happens: have, lead, beat, drive · To what, where: brave little army, foes, men, flight
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 (Bruce), 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 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Bruce | Bruce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 led | nsubj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 army | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 army | amod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 army | amod |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 foes | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 foes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 army | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 six | cc |
| 15 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 men | nmod:poss |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 beaten | nsubj |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 beaten | aux:pass |
| 21 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 had | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 driven | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 driven | cc |
| 24 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 had | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 flight | case |
| 26 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 driven | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | Bruce | Bruce's brave little army | Bruce's foes | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme against foe=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | past | time | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | beat | participle · passive | Bruce's men | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | drive | participle | flight | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into flight=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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