Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 26

True, we have been beaten in a few battles, but our army is gaining ground every day.

Who acts: army · What happens: beat, gain · To what, where: we, ground

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 (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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beaten	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 beaten	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 beaten	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 beaten	aux:pass
6	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 True	parataxis
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 battles	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 battles	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 battles	amod
10	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beaten	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gaining	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 gaining	cc
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 army	nmod:poss
14	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gaining	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gaining	aux
16	gaining	gain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 True	advcl
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gaining	obj
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gaining	obl:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present · perfect · passive		we				in a few battles	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in battle=Topic
2	gain	present · progressive	our army	ground			day		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme

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/pg18442/28/26/