Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 13

I, with the two men who stand by me, will keep the foe at bay."

Who acts: two men, I · What happens: stand, keep · To what, where: foe, bay

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 (two men, I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 keep	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 men	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 men	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 I	conj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stand	nsubj
8	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 men	acl:relcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 stand	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 I	punct
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	aux
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 foe	det
15	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 bay	case
17	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	the two men					by me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by i=Location
2	keep	future	I	the foe		bay			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent foe=Theme at bay=Location

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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