Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 26
A dart thrown by one of Porsena's soldiers put out his left eye; but he did not falter.
Who acts: dart · What happens: throw, put out, not falter · To what, where: dart, left eye
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 (dart), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dart | det |
| 2 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj |
| 3 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dart | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thrown | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 soldiers | case |
| 7 | Porsena | Porsena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Porsena | case |
| 9 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thrown | obl |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eye | nmod:poss |
| 13 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eye | amod |
| 14 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 falter | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 falter | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 falter | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 falter | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 falter | advmod |
| 20 | falter | falter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | participle | a dart not said here | by one; of Porsena's soldiers | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by one=Destination | ||||
| 2 | put out | past | a dart | Porsena's left eye | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal | ||||
| 3 | not falter | past · do-support | dart | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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