Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 16
They rode with great speed; and both men and horses were covered with dust and blood.
Who acts: mountains · What happens: ride, cover · To what, where: men
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountains), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 speed | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speed | amod |
| 5 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 covered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 covered | cc |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 men | det |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 horses | cc |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 men | conj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 covered | aux:pass |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rode | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 dust | case |
| 15 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blood | cc |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dust | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | mountains = mountain | with great speed | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | both men and horses | with dust and blood | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dust=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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