Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 31

At the same moment a Scottish soldier climbed off a ladder and leaped upon the wall; and then there came another and another and another, until the wall was covered with them.

Who acts: Scottish soldier, another · What happens: climb, leap, come, cover · To what, where: ladder, wall

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 (Scottish soldier, another), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:354): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climbed	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
6	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soldier	amod
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climbed	nsubj
8	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 ladder	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ladder	det
11	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climbed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 leaped	cc
13	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 climbed	conj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 wall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaped	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 came	advmod
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 came	expl
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 climbed	conj
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 came	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 another	cc
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 another	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 another	cc
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 another	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 covered	punct
28	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 covered	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wall	det
30	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 covered	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 covered	aux:pass
32	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 came	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 covered	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	a Scottish soldier		a ladder	moment		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off ladder=Trajectory
2	leap	past	a Scottish soldier not said here		the wall			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wall=Trajectory
3	come	past	another		there	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cover	past · passive		the wall			with soldiers = soldier	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with they=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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