Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 12

"Hew down the bridge with all the speed that you can!" he cried. "

Who acts: you, bridge · What happens: hew down, cry · To what, where: bridge · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, bridge), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hew	punct
2	Hew	hew	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 Hew	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hew	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 speed	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 speed	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 speed	det
9	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hew	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 can	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 can	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 speed	acl:relcl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hew	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hew	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cried	nsubj
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hew	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hew	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hew down in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the bridge				with all speed	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	bridge						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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