Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 47

But he armed the guards and the boys, and went out at their head to fight the fierce mountain men, and free the Roman army from the trap into which it had fallen.

Who acts: Cincinnatus, army · What happens: arm, go out, fight, fall · To what, where: guards, trap, head, fierce mountain 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 (Cincinnatus, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 armed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 armed	nsubj
3	armed	arm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guards	det
5	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 armed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 boys	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guards	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 armed	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 went	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fight	mark
17	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 went	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 men	det
19	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 men	amod
20	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 men	compound
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fight	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 free	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 free	cc
24	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 armed	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 army	det
26	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 army	amod
27	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 free	nsubj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 trap	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trap	det
30	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 armed	obl
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 fallen	obl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fallen	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 fallen	aux
35	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 trap	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 armed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	arm	past	Cincinnatus	the guards and the boys	the trap	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient
2	go out	past	Cincinnatus not said here		boys's head	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fight	to-infinitive	Cincinnatus not said here	the fierce mountain men		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
4	fall	past · perfect	army		the trap	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into which=Result

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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