Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 13
Then every man did his best, and the whole army moved right onward.
Who acts: man, whole army · What happens: do, move · To what, where: best
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 (man, whole army), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 did | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 best | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 moved | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 moved | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 army | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 army | amod |
| 11 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | nsubj |
| 12 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 14 onward | advmod |
| 14 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 12 moved | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | every man | Napoleon's best | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | move | past | the whole army | onward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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