Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 35
They snatched spears and shields from their foes.
Who acts: friends · What happens: snatch · To what, where: spears, foes
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 (friends), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 snatched | nsubj |
| 2 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 snatched | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shields | cc |
| 5 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spears | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 foes | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 foes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 snatched | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch | past | friends = friend | spears and shields | friends's foes | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent spear=Theme from foe=Source |
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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