Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 28

Then ten of us set spurs to our horses; and five of us forced our way through, but the other five fell before the spears of the mountain men.

Who acts: five, other five · What happens: force, fall · To what, where: way, spears

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 (five, other five), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 ten	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 spurs	nummod
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ten	nmod
5	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spurs	amod
6	spurs	spur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 horses	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horses	nmod:poss
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spurs	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 forced	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 forced	cc
12	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 forced	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 five	nmod
15	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spurs	acl:relcl
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 forced	obj
18	through	through	ADV	_	15 forced	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 five	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 five	amod
23	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 forced	conj
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 spears	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 spears	det
27	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fell	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 men	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 men	det
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 men	compound
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 spears	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spurs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	past	five of us	our way				through property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient
2	fall	past	the other five			the spears of the mountain men			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before spear=Location

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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