Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 16

The soldiers moved stead-i-ly onward; their shields lapped over one another; their thousand spears looked like so many long bris-tles in the sun-light.

Who acts: soldiers, shields, thousand spears · What happens: move, lap, look · To what, where: stead, one

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 (soldiers, shields, thousand spears), 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 soldiers	det
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 onward	punct
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 onward	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 onward	punct
8	ly	ly	ADV	_	9 onward	advmod
9	onward	onward	ADV	_	4 stead	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 lapped	punct
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shields	nmod:poss
12	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lapped	nsubj
13	lapped	lap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	conj
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 lapped	obj
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 one	fixed
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 spears	nmod:poss
19	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 spears	nummod
20	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 looked	nsubj
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	conj
22	like	like	ADP	_	28 tles	case
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 many	advmod
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tles	amod
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tles	amod
26	bris	bris	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tles	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 bris	punct
28	tles	tle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 looked	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 light	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 light	det
31	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 light	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 sun	punct
33	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tles	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move	past	the soldiers	stead		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stead=Theme
2	lap	past	soldiers's shields	one		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	look	past	soldiers's thousand spears		like many long bris tles in the sun light	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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