Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 6
At last his army was scat-tered, and he was forced to hide himself in the woods and in lonely places among the moun-tains.
Who acts: Bruce · What happens: ter, force, hide · To what, where: last army, Bruce, woods
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 army | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 army | amod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 army | nmod:poss |
| 4 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tered | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tered | aux:pass |
| 6 | scat | scat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tered | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 scat | punct |
| 8 | tered | ter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 forced | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forced | aux:pass |
| 13 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tered | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hide | mark |
| 15 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forced | xcomp |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 hide | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 woods | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woods | det |
| 19 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hide | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 places | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 places | case |
| 22 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 places | amod |
| 23 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 woods | conj |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 tains | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tains | det |
| 26 | moun | moun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tains | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 moun | punct |
| 28 | tains | tain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hide | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ter | past · passive | Bruce's last army | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | force | past · passive | Bruce | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | Bruce not said here | Bruce | the woods and lonely places | among the moun tains | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in wood=Location |
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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