Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 2

The ground was covered with dead and dying men.

What happens: cover, die · To what, where: ground, men

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: 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	2 ground	det
2	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 dead	case
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 covered	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dying	cc
8	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 covered	conj
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dying	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the ground				with dead	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dead=Theme
2	die	gerund		men					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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