Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 23

All at once a thou-sand sav-age men sprang out from among the rocks before us and above us.

Who acts: thou · What happens: spring out · To what, where: rocks

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 (thou), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 sprang	mark
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 sprang	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sprang	det
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 sprang	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 thou	punct
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 age	compound
8	sav	sav	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 age	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sav	punct
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 men	compound
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sprang	nsubj
12	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 All	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 sprang	compound:prt
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 rocks	case
15	among	among	ADP	_	17 rocks	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rocks	det
17	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sprang	obl
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 us	case
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 rocks	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 us	cc
21	above	above	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 us	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 All	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring out	past	thou			the rocks before us		once property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from rock=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/27/23/