Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 20

To Spartans there was no such thing as fear.

Who acts: Spartans · What happens: be · To what, where: such thing

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 (Spartans), 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 Spartans	case
2	Spartans	Spartan	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 thing	nsubj
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 Spartans	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 thing	det
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 fear	case
9	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Spartans	no such thing				as fear	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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