Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 29

With a single bound he reached the poor slave.

Who acts: pity · What happens: reach · To what, where: poor slave

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pity), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 bound	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bound	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bound	amod
4	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 slave	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 slave	amod
9	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	pity	the poor slave				with a single bound	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent slave=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.

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