Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 35

He was half-way across the river, and safe from the spears and darts which Porsena's soldiers hurled after him.

Who acts: spake, soldiers · What happens: be, hurl · To what, where: half way, river, spears

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, soldiers), 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	5 way	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 way	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 half	punct
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 safe	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 safe	cc
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	parataxis
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 spears	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spears	det
14	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 safe	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 darts	cc
16	darts	dart	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spears	conj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 hurled	obj
18	Porsena	Porsena	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 soldiers	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Porsena	case
20	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hurled	nsubj
21	hurled	hurl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 spears	acl:relcl
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hurled	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	spake = speak	half way		the river			tree rules
2	hurl	past	Porsena's soldiers	the spears and darts			after spake = speak		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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