Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 32

He still had his heavy armor on; and when he sank out of sight, no one thought that he would ever be seen again.

Who acts: spake, one · What happens: have, sink, think, see · To what, where: heavy armor, sight, spake · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (spake, one), 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	3 had	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 armor	nmod:poss
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 armor	amod
6	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 armor	compound:prt
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sank	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sank	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sank	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sank	nsubj
12	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	_	15 sight	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 sight	case
15	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sank	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sank	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 seen	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seen	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 seen	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 seen	aux:pass
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 thought	ccomp
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 seen	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	spake = speak	spake's heavy armor		still	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armor=Patient
2	sink	past	spake = speak		sight		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	think speech: other	past	no one				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	see	would · passive		spake = speak		ever; again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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