Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 11

He knelt down by the side of his fallen foe, and pressed the flask to his lips.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: kneel down, fall, press · To what, where: flask

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Soldier.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knelt	nsubj
2	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 knelt	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knelt	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 foe	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 foe	nmod:poss
9	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 foe	amod
10	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pressed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pressed	cc
13	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knelt	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flask	det
15	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pressed	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 lips	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lips	nmod:poss
18	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pressed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kneel down	past	soldier		by the side of soldier's fallen foe	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
2	fall	participle				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	press	past		the flask	to soldier's lips	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme

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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