Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 16
Some one brought them word that there were so many Persians that their arrows dark-ened the sun.
Who acts: one, arrows · What happens: bring, en · To what, where: das, sun.
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 (one, arrows), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 were | obj |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 were | expl |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | acl:relcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 many | advmod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Persians | amod |
| 11 | Persians | Persian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 ened | mark |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ened | nsubj |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 arrows | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 dark | punct |
| 17 | ened | en | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sun. | det |
| 19 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ened | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | some one | das | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | en | past | das's arrows | the sun. | tree rules |
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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