Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 60
They led him to their king, and in a short time they made ready to put him to death.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: lead, make, put · To what, where: Smith, king
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 (Indians), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 king | nmod:poss |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | conj |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 made | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Indians = indian | Smith | Indians's king | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | Indians = indian | time | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | Smith | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
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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