Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 7
Some came with bows and arrows, some with scythes and pitch-forks, and some with only sticks and clubs.
Who acts: Some · What happens: come
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 (Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 bows | case |
| 4 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 arrows | cc |
| 6 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bows | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 scythes | punct |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 scythes | det |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 scythes | case |
| 10 | scythes | scythe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bows | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forks | cc |
| 12 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forks | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 pitch | punct |
| 14 | forks | fork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bows | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 some | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 some | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 came | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sticks | case |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 sticks | advmod |
| 20 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 some | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 clubs | cc |
| 22 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sticks | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Some | with bows and arrows and some scythes and pitch forks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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