Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 28
But he ran straight on-ward to the place where the spears were thickest.
Who acts: Switzerland, spears · What happens: run, be · To what, where: ward
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 (Switzerland, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 ran | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ward | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 on | punct |
| 7 | ward | ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 thickest | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spears | det |
| 13 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 thickest | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thickest | cop |
| 15 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Switzerland | ward | to the place result; straight property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | the spears | thick property | tree rules |
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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