Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 15
On the bridge the Romans hewed away at the beams and posts.
Who acts: Romans · What happens: hew away · To what, where: 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 (Romans), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 bridge | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bridge | det |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hewed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Romans | det |
| 5 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 hewed | nsubj |
| 6 | hewed | hew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 hewed | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 beams | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beams | det |
| 10 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hewed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 posts | cc |
| 12 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beams | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hew away | past | the Romans | the bridge | at the beams and posts; away property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at beam=Patient |
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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