Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 30
A hundred spears were turned to catch him upon their points.
Who acts: spears · What happens: turn, catch, point · To what, where: hundred spears, lib
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 spears | nummod |
| 3 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | aux:pass |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 catch | mark |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turned | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 catch | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 points | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 points | nmod:poss |
| 11 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 catch | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · passive | hundred spears | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | lib | upon spears's points | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | point | spears = spear | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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