Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 77
The next day the king sent Smith home; and several Indians went with him to protect him from harm.
Who acts: king, several Indians · What happens: send, go, protect · To what, where: Smith home, 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 (king, several 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 king | acl |
| 7 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 home | compound |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Indians | amod |
| 12 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 protect | mark |
| 17 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 protect | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 harm | case |
| 20 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 protect | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | the king not said here | Smith home | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | several Indians | day | with king | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | protect | to-infinitive | several Indians not said here | king | from harm | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary from harm=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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