Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 10
Now, among the guards at the bridge, there was a brave man named Ho-ra'ti-us.
Who acts: brave man · What happens: be, name · To what, where: guards, brave man
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Horatius At the Bridge.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brave man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 guards | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 guards | det |
| 5 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 was | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 bridge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bridge | det |
| 8 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guards | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 guards | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 man | acl |
| 16 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 named | xcomp |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ra'ti | punct |
| 18 | ra'ti | ra'ti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Ho | appos |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 us | punct |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ra'ti | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a brave man | the guards at the bridge; there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among guard=Location | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a brave man not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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