Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 9
He had lost a battle, it is true, and had been taken prisoner.
Who acts: Carthage, battle · What happens: lose, be, take · To what, where: battle, prisoner
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 (Carthage, battle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 battle | det |
| 5 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 true | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 true | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 true | cop |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lost | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taken | cc |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 true | parataxis |
| 15 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | Carthage | a battle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | battle | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect · passive | prisoner | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
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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