Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 18

But just then Porsena's horsemen dashed toward them again.

Who acts: horsemen · What happens: dash

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 (horsemen), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 dashed	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 then	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 dashed	advmod
4	Porsena	Porsena	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 horsemen	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Porsena	case
6	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dashed	nsubj
7	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	toward	toward	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dashed	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	7 dashed	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dash	past	Porsena's horsemen				then; again	toward lives = life	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward they=Trajectory

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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