Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 4

There was war almost all the time, and no one else could lead his army into battle so well as he.

Who acts: war, one · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: army, battle

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, one), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lead	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lead	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lead	nsubj
12	else	else	ADV	_	11 one	advmod
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 lead	aux
14	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 army	nmod:poss
16	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lead	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 battle	case
18	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lead	obl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 well	advmod
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 was	advmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 he	case
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 well	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	war			there	time	well property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lead	could	no one	war's army		battle			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme into battle=Destination

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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