Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 2
A mighty army, led by the great King of Persia, had come from the east.
Who acts: mighty army · What happens: lead, come · To what, where: mighty army, east
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 (mighty army), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 army | det |
| 2 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 army | amod |
| 3 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 army | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 King | amod |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl:agent |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Persia | case |
| 11 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 army | punct |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 east | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 east | det |
| 17 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | a mighty army not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | a mighty army | the east | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from east=Initial_Location |
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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