Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 25

With his face still toward Porsena's men, he moved slowly back-ward till he stood on the river's bank.

Who acts: Horatius · What happens: move, stand · To what, where: bank

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 (Horatius), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:964): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 face	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 face	nmod:poss
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moved	obl
4	still	still	ADV	_	8 men	advmod
5	toward	toward	ADP	_	8 men	case
6	Porsena	Porsena	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Porsena	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 face	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 face	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 moved	nsubj
11	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 moved	advmod
13	back	back	ADV	_	15 ward	advmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 back	punct
15	ward	ward	ADV	_	11 moved	advmod
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 stood	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stood	nsubj
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 moved	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 bank	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bank	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 river	case
23	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	Horatius					with Horatius's face toward Porsena's men; slowly, ward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	Horatius			the river's bank			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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