Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 62

Then two tall Indians with big clubs in their hands came forward.

Who acts: two tall Indians · What happens: come forward

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 (two tall 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Indians	nummod
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Indians	amod
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 came	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 clubs	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clubs	amod
7	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Indians	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clubs	nmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	forward	forward	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come forward	past	two tall Indians with big clubs in Indians's hands				then	forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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