Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 14
Then his eyes met those of a dying soldier who was lying on the ground close by.
Who acts: eyes, dying soldier · What happens: meet, die, lie · To what, where: those, ground
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Philip Sidney.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, dying soldier), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 met | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 met | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 soldier | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 8 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 soldier | amod |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 those | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lying | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lying | aux |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 16 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ground | amod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 close | fixed |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | ly's eyes | those | then | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | lie | past · progressive | a dying soldier | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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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