Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 17

By and by, when Bucephalus had become tired, Alexander reined him in, and rode back to the place where his father was standing.

Who acts: Bucephalus, Alexander, father · What happens: become, rein, ride back, stand · To what, where: Bucephalus, place

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bucephalus, Alexander, father), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	8 become	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 by	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	1 By	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 become	advmod
6	Bucephalus	Bucephalus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 become	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
8	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 reined	advcl
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 become	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct
11	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 reined	nsubj
12	reined	rein	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reined	obj
14	in	in	ADV	_	12 reined	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rode	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rode	cc
17	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 reined	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 rode	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 place	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rode	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 standing	advmod
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 standing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 standing	aux
26	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 place	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 reined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	Bucephalus			tired property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	rein	past	Alexander	Bucephalus			tree rules
3	ride back	past	Alexander not said here		the place		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory
4	stand	past · progressive	Bucephalus's father				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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