Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 26

Bucephalus carried him through many countries and in many fierce battles, and more than once did he save his master's life.

Who acts: Bucephalus, Alexander · What happens: carry, save · To what, where: Alexander, many countries, life

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), 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	Bucephalus	Bucephalus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 countries	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countries	amod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 battles	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 battles	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 battles	amod
10	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 battles	amod
11	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 countries	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 more	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 more	cc
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 carried	obj
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 save	mark
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 save	advmod
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 save	aux
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 save	nsubj
19	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 more	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 life	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 master	case
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 save	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Bucephalus		Alexander	many countries and many fierce battles			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary more=Value
2	save	past · do-support	Alexander	Alexander's master's life				once property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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