Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 21
They turned, and ran back across the bridge.
Who acts: roads · What happens: turn, run back · 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 (roads), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 bridge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bridge | det |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | roads = road | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run back | past | roads = road not said here | the bridge | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across bridge=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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