Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 7

There were thousands of horsemen and footmen, and they were marching straight toward the wooden bridge which spanned the river at Rome.

Who acts: thousands, wooden bridge · What happens: be, march, span · To what, where: wooden bridge, river, Rome

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 (thousands, wooden bridge), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 horsemen	case
5	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 footmen	cc
7	footmen	footman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 horsemen	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 marching	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 marching	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 marching	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 marching	aux
12	marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 were	advcl
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 marching	advmod
14	toward	toward	ADP	_	17 bridge	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bridge	det
16	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bridge	amod
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marching	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 spanned	nsubj
19	spanned	span	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bridge	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spanned	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 Rome	case
23	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 spanned	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	thousands of horsemen and footmen		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	march	past · progressive	thousands = thousand		the wooden bridge	straight property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward bridge=Trajectory
3	span	past	the wooden bridge	the river	Rome		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Co-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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