Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 10
This pass was guarded by Le-on'i-das, the King of the Spartans, with three hundred Spartan soldiers.
Who acts: Le on'i das · What happens: guard · To what, where: pass
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Brave Three Hundred.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Le on'i das), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 pass | det |
| 2 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guarded | aux:pass |
| 4 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 das | case |
| 6 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 das | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Le | punct |
| 8 | on'i | on'i | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 das | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 on'i | punct |
| 10 | das | da | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guarded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 King | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 das | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Spartans | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Spartans | det |
| 16 | Spartans | Spartan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 King | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 soldiers | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 soldiers | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hundred | compound |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 soldiers | nummod |
| 21 | Spartan | spartan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 soldiers | amod |
| 22 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guarded | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 guarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past · passive | Le on'i das | this pass | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
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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