Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 34
Many of them were killed, and in a little while the Black Douglas and his men were the masters of the castle, which by right be-longed to them.
Who acts: men · What happens: kill, be, long · To what, where: Many, masters, right, soldiers
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 (men), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Many | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Douglas | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Douglas | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 little | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Douglas | amod |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 Douglas | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Douglas | det |
| 13 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Douglas | compound |
| 14 | Douglas | Douglas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 masters | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 men | nmod:poss |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 masters | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 masters | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 masters | det |
| 20 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Douglas | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 masters | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 longed | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 longed | obj |
| 26 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 longed | mark |
| 27 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 longed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 longed | aux:pass |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 longed | punct |
| 30 | longed | long | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 castle | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 longed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Douglas | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | Many of soldiers | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Douglas's men | the masters | of the castle | tree rules | |||
| 3 | long | infinitive · passive | right | soldiers = soldier | tree rules |
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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