Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 5
The men who had been sent to look at the passes over the mountains shook their heads.
Who acts: men · What happens: send, look, shake · To what, where: men, heads
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:784): 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sent | aux:pass |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 men | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 passes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 passes | det |
| 11 | passes | pass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 look | obl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 passes | nmod |
| 15 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heads | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shook | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · perfect · passive | the men | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | at the passes over the mountains | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pass=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shake | past | the men | mountains's heads | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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