Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 36

Some of them went back to England; some of them died for want of food; and some of them were lost in the woods.

Who acts: Some · What happens: go back, die, lose, want · To what, where: England, some, woods, food

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 went	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Some	nmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 England	case
7	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 died	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 died	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 some	nmod
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 want	case
14	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 food	case
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 want	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 lost	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lost	cc
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 lost	nsubj:pass
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 some	nmod
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lost	aux:pass
23	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 woods	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woods	det
26	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lost	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past	Some		England			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to england=Result
2	die	past	some				for want of food	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for want=Theme
3	lose	past · passive		some		the woods		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	want			food				nom want «state transitive»: of=patient

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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