Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 6

One morning the army of Por-se-na was seen coming over the hills from the north.

Who acts: army · What happens: see, come · To what, where: army, hills

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 (army), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 army	det
4	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 na	case
6	Por	Por	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 na	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Por	punct
8	se	se	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 na	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 se	punct
10	na	na	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 army	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux:pass
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 seen	xcomp
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 hills	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hills	det
16	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 coming	obl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 north	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 north	det
19	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coming	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		the army of Por se na			morning		tree rules
2	come	gerund	the army of Por se na not said here			the hills		from the north	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location from north=Destination

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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