Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 6

And so they came from the mountains and valleys to try what they could do to save their land.

Who acts: men · What happens: come, try, do, save · To what, where: mountains, land

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 (men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:669): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountains	det
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 valleys	cc
9	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mountains	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 try	mark
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 do	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 try	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 save	mark
17	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 do	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 land	nmod:poss
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 save	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	men = man		the mountains and valleys	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location
2	try	to-infinitive	men = man not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do	could	men = man			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	save	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	men's land		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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