Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 11

They had sent into other countries to hire soldiers to help them; but even with these they would not be able to fight much longer against Rome.

Who acts: people, these · What happens: send, hire, help, not be, fight · To what, where: people, other countries, soldiers

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, these), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 countries	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countries	amod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hire	mark
8	hire	hire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	xcomp
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hire	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 help	mark
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hire	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 help	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 able	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 these	cc
15	even	even	ADV	_	17 these	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 these	case
17	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 able	nsubj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 able	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 able	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 able	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	cop
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sent	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 fight	mark
24	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 longer	advmod
26	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 fight	advmod
27	against	against	ADP	_	28 Rome	case
28	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fight	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		people	other countries		tree rules
2	hire	to-infinitive	people not said here	soldiers			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme
3	help	to-infinitive	people not said here	people			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
4	not is	would	these			able property	tree rules
5	fight	to-infinitive	these not said here			against Rome; long property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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