Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 13
The bowmen shot their arrows, but they glanced off from the soldiers' shields.
Who acts: bowmen · What happens: shoot, glance off · To what, where: arrows
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Arnold Winkelried.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bowmen), 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 | 2 bowmen | det |
| 2 | bowmen | bowman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shot | nsubj |
| 3 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shot | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glanced | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 glanced | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 glanced | nsubj |
| 9 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shot | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 glanced | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 shields | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soldiers | det |
| 13 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shields | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 soldiers | case |
| 15 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glanced | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | the bowmen | bowmen's arrows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glance off | past | bowmen = bowman | from the soldiers's shields | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from shield=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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