Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 2
Por'se-na, the King of the E-trus-cans, raised a great army, and marched toward Rome.
Who acts: Por'se na · What happens: raise, march · To what, where: great army, Rome
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 (Por'se na), 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 | Por'se | por'se | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 na | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Por'se | punct |
| 3 | na | na | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 King | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 na | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 E-trus-cans | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 E-trus-cans | det |
| 9 | E-trus-cans | E-trus-can | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 King | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 na | punct |
| 11 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 army | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 army | amod |
| 14 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raised | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marched | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 marched | cc |
| 17 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 raised | conj |
| 18 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 19 Rome | case |
| 19 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 marched | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Por'se na | a great army | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | ||||
| 2 | march | past | Por'se na not said here | Rome | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward rome=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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