Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 13

Hardly had he spoken these words, when the Swede raised himself on his elbow.

Who acts: soldier, Swede · What happens: speak, raise · To what, where: words, soldier, elbow · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Swede), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 spoken	advmod
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	nsubj
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoken	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 raised	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 raised	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Swede	det
10	Swede	Swede	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 raised	nsubj
11	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	parataxis
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 raised	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 elbow	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 elbow	nmod:poss
15	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raised	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect	soldier	this words				hardly property	tree rules
2	raise	past	the Swede	soldier		soldier's elbow			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on elbow=Destination

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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