Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 50
The men of the mountains had been beaten with great loss.
What happens: beat · 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beaten | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mountains | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mountains | det |
| 5 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beaten | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 beaten | aux:pass |
| 8 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 loss | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 loss | amod |
| 11 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beaten | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past · perfect · passive | the men of the mountains | with great loss | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with loss=Instrument |
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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