Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 23

They would soon be climbing to the top of the wall.

Who acts: objects · What happens: climb · To what, where: top

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), 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 climbing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 climbing	aux
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 climbing	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 climbing	aux
5	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbing	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 wall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climbing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	would · progressive	objects = object			the top of the wall		soon property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination

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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