Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 4
The sun shone down without pity on the wounded soldiers lying in the blood and dust.
Who acts: wounded soldiers · What happens: shine down, lie · To what, where: sun, wounded soldiers, blood
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 (wounded 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 | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sun | acl |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 shone | compound:prt |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 pity | case |
| 6 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 soldiers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldiers | det |
| 9 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 soldiers | amod |
| 10 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shone | obl |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 soldiers | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 blood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blood | det |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lying | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dust | cc |
| 16 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blood | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine down | participle | the sun not said here | the wounded soldiers | without pity | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on soldier=Location | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the wounded soldiers not said here | the blood and dust | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in blood=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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