Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 4

A soldier of the Danes who had been slightly wounded was sitting on the ground.

Who acts: Danes, soldier · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: ground

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 (Danes, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Danes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Danes	det
5	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 soldier	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 wounded	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wounded	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 wounded	cop
9	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	10 wounded	advmod
10	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Danes	acl:relcl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	aux
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the Danes					slightly, wounded property	tree rules
2	sit	past · progressive	a soldier of the Danes			the ground			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=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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