Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 15

In four days they were marching on the plains of Italy.

Who acts: men · What happens: march · To what, where: plains

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 (men), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 marching	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 marching	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 marching	aux
6	marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 plains	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plains	det
9	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 marching	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Italy	case
11	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 plains	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 marching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past · progressive	men = man			the plains of Italy	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plain=Trajectory

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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