Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 3
One day a great battle was fought, and the Swedes were beaten, and driven from the field.
What happens: fight, beat, drive · To what, where: great battle, Swedes, field
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.
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 battle | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 battle | amod |
| 5 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fought | aux:pass |
| 7 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beaten | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beaten | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Swedes | det |
| 11 | Swedes | Swede | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 beaten | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beaten | aux:pass |
| 13 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fought | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 driven | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 driven | cc |
| 16 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fought | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 field | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 field | det |
| 19 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 driven | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · passive | a great battle | day | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | beat | past · passive | the Swedes | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drive | participle | the field | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from field=Trajectory |
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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