Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 14

Then, with their shields before them, and their long spears in their hands, the three brave men stood in the road, and kept back the horsemen whom Porsena had sent to take the bridge.

Who acts: shields, Porsena · What happens: stand, keep back, send, take · To what, where: road, horsemen, bridge

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 (shields, Porsena), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 stood	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 shields	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shields	nmod:poss
5	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stood	nsubj
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shields	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spears	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spears	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 spears	nmod:poss
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spears	amod
12	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shields	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hands	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 spears	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 men	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 men	det
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 men	nummod
19	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 men	amod
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shields	conj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 road	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 road	det
24	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kept	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 kept	cc
27	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stood	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 kept	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horsemen	det
30	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kept	obj
31	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 sent	obj
32	Porsena	Porsena	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 sent	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sent	aux
34	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 horsemen	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 take	mark
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 sent	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bridge	det
38	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 take	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	men's shields before men and men's long spears in men's hands and the three brave men		the road	then	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location
2	keep back	past	men's shields before men and men's long spears in men's hands and the three brave men not said here	the horsemen			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horseman=Theme
3	send	past · perfect	Porsena	the horsemen			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
4	take	to-infinitive	Porsena not said here	the bridge			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=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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