Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 22

"Only yes-ter-day," they said, "our army was marching through a narrow valley between two steep mountains.

Who acts: mountains, army · What happens: say, march · To what, where: narrow valley · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	7 day	advmod
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 day	discourse
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 yes	punct
5	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ter	punct
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 marching	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 marching	punct
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 army	nmod:poss
15	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 marching	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 marching	aux
17	marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
18	through	through	ADP	_	21 valley	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 valley	det
20	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 valley	amod
21	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 marching	obl
22	between	between	ADP	_	25 mountains	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 mountains	nummod
24	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mountains	amod
25	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 marching	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mountains = mountain				day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	march in a quote	past · progressive	our army			a narrow valley		between two steep mountains	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through valley=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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