Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 23

Then the jailer came to lead him to his death; but at the same moment Pythias stood in the door.

Who acts: jailer, same moment Pythias · What happens: come, lead, stand, die · To what, where: jailer, death, door

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jailer, same moment Pythias), 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	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jailer	det
3	jailer	jailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lead	mark
6	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lead	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 death	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 death	nmod:poss
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lead	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 Pythias	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	17 Pythias	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Pythias	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Pythias	amod
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Pythias	compound
17	Pythias	pythia	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stood	nsubj
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	the jailer			then	tree rules
2	lead	to-infinitive	the jailer not said here	jailer	jailer's death		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to death=Destination
3	stand	past	the same moment Pythias		the door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in door=Location
4	die		jailer				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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