Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 2
Not quite a hundred years after the time of Sir Philip Sidney there was a war between the Swedes and the Danes.
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 years | advmod |
| 2 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 hundred | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 years | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Philip | case |
| 10 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Philip | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Philip | Philip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 12 | Sidney | Sidney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Philip | flat |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Philip | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 war | det |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 Swedes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Swedes | det |
| 19 | Swedes | Swede | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 war | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Danes | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Danes | det |
| 22 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Swedes | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 years | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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