Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 27

He cast his spear at the fore-most horseman, and then he turned quickly around.

Who acts: dart · What happens: cast, turn around · To what, where: spear, fore most horseman

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cast	nsubj
2	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spear	nmod:poss
4	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cast	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	10 horseman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horseman	det
7	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 horseman	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fore	punct
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 horseman	amod
10	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cast	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 turned	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 turned	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cast	conj
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	15 turned	advmod
17	around	around	ADV	_	15 turned	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	past	dart	dart's spear		the fore most horseman			vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at horseman=Destination
2	turn around	past	dart				then	around, quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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