Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 10
But Napoleon waited only to see that everything was in good order, and then he gave the order to march.
Who acts: Napoleon, everything · What happens: wait, see, be, give, march · To what, where: good order, order · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Napoleon, everything), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 waited | cc |
| 2 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 waited | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 waited | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 everything | det |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 order | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 order | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 order | case |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 order | amod |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 gave | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 order | det |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 march | mark |
| 21 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 gave | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Napoleon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Napoleon not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | everything | good order | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Napoleon | the order | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 5 | march | to-infinitive | Napoleon not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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