Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 65

In another moment they would fall on Smith's head.

Who acts: Indians · What happens: fall · To what, where: head

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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fall	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 head	case
8	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 head	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Smith	case
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	Indians = indian			Smith's head	moment		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=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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