Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 9

The Scot-tish soldiers wanted very much to take it again, and the Black Douglas and his men went one day to see what they could do.

Who acts: Scot tish soldiers, Black Douglas, soldiers · What happens: want, take, go, see, do · To what, where: English · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Scot tish soldiers, Black Douglas, soldiers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldiers	det
2	Scot	Scot	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 soldiers	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Scot	punct
4	tish	tish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soldiers	amod
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 take	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Douglas	det
16	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Douglas	compound
17	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 men	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 men	nmod:poss
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Douglas	conj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wanted	conj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 day	nummod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl:unmarked
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	advcl
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 do	obj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	want	past	the Scot tish soldiers			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Scot tish soldiers not said here	English	again	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	go	past	the Black Douglas and Douglas's men		day	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	the Black Douglas and Douglas's men not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	could	soldiers = soldier			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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