Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 11
Soon the Persian soldiers were seen coming.
Who acts: Persian soldiers · What happens: see, come · To what, where: Persian soldiers
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 (Persian soldiers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:1147): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 seen | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soldiers | det |
| 3 | Persian | Persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soldiers | amod |
| 4 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux:pass |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 seen | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | the Persian soldiers | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | the Persian soldiers not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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