Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 21

They were the Black Douglas and his men, creeping on hands and feet toward the foot of the castle wall.

Who acts: objects, Black Douglas · What happens: be, creep · To what, where: Black Douglas, hands

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 (objects, Black Douglas), 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	5 Douglas	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Douglas	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Douglas	det
4	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Douglas	compound
5	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 men	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 men	nmod:poss
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Douglas	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 creeping	punct
10	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Douglas	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 hands	case
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 creeping	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 feet	cc
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hands	conj
15	toward	toward	ADP	_	17 foot	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 foot	det
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 creeping	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 wall	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wall	det
20	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wall	compound
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 foot	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Douglas	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	objects = object	the Black Douglas and Douglas's men					tree rules
2	creep	gerund	the Black Douglas and Douglas's men not said here			hands and feet		toward the foot of the castle wall	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=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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