Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 4

In the war with the English, who were trying to drive Bruce from Scotland, the Black Douglas did many brave deeds; and the English people became very much afraid of him.

Who acts: war, Black Douglas, English people · What happens: try, drive, do, become · To what, where: Bruce, Scotland, many brave deeds, war

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 (war, Black Douglas, English people), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 war	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 war	det
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 did	obl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 English	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 English	det
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 war	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trying	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 trying	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 trying	aux
10	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 war	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 drive	mark
12	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 trying	xcomp
13	Bruce	Bruce	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 drive	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 Scotland	case
15	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 drive	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 war	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Douglas	det
18	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Douglas	compound
19	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 deeds	amod
22	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 deeds	amod
23	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 did	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 became	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 people	det
27	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 people	amod
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 became	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 did	conj
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	32 afraid	advmod
32	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 became	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 afraid	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	the war with the English				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	drive not said to happen	to-infinitive	the war with the English not said here	Bruce	Scotland		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bruce=Theme from scotland=Trajectory
3	do	past	the Black Douglas	many brave deeds	the war with the English		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
4	become	past	the English people			afraid property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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