Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 38
Then Porsena's men shouted also, for they had never seen a man so brave and strong as Horatius.
Who acts: men · What happens: shout, not see · To what, where: man
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 (men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 shouted | advmod |
| 2 | Porsena | Porsena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 men | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Porsena | case |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shouted | nsubj |
| 5 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 shouted | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 seen | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 seen | advmod |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 shouted | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 brave | advmod |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seen | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 strong | cc |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 brave | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 Horatius | case |
| 20 | Horatius | Horatius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 strong | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | Porsena's men | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect | men = man | a man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=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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