Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 11

But they had left watch-men on the wall to see that the Scottish soldiers did not come upon them un-a-wares; and so they felt quite safe.

Who acts: soldiers, Scottish soldiers · What happens: leave, see, not come, feel · To what, where: watch men, wall, un-a-wares · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers, Scottish soldiers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 left	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 watch	punct
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 soldiers	det
15	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 soldiers	amod
16	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 come	advmod
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	ccomp
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	obl
22	un-a-wares	un-a-ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 felt	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 felt	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 felt	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 felt	nsubj
27	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 safe	advmod
29	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 felt	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect	soldiers = soldier	watch men	the wall		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme on wall=Location
2	see	to-infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not come	past · do-support	the Scottish soldiers	un-a-wares		upon cas = ca	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location un-a-ware=Theme
4	feel	past	soldiers = soldier			safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/13/11/