Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 3
The soldiers would burn the towns, they would rob the farmers of their grain and sheep, they would make slaves of the people.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: burn, rob, make · To what, where: towns, farmers, slaves
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), 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 | 4 burn | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 burn | aux |
| 4 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 towns | det |
| 6 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burn | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rob | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rob | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 rob | aux |
| 10 | rob | rob | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 burn | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farmers | det |
| 12 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rob | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 grain | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 grain | nmod:poss |
| 15 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 farmers | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sheep | cc |
| 17 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 grain | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 burn | parataxis |
| 22 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 slaves | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | would | the soldiers | the towns | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rob | would | soldiers = soldier | the farmers of soldiers's grain and sheep | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Source | ||||
| 3 | make | would | soldiers = soldier | slaves of the people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slave=Product |
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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