Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 9

So he raised a great army, and made war upon the other states, until nearly all of them were forced to call him their king.

Who acts: Philip, all · What happens: raise, make, force, call · To what, where: great army, war, all, Philip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Laconic Answer.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Philip, all), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 raised	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raised	nsubj
3	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 army	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 army	amod
6	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raised	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 raised	conj
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 states	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 states	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 states	amod
14	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 forced	punct
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 forced	mark
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 all	advmod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 forced	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 all	nmod
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 forced	aux:pass
22	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 made	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 call	mark
24	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 forced	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 call	obj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 king	nmod:poss
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 call	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	raise	past	Philip	a great army		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme
2	make	past	Philip not said here	war	upon the other states	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product
3	force	past · passive		all		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	call	to-infinitive	all not said here	Philip		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme king=Result

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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