Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 21
The Persians came forward, only to meet death at the points of their spears.
Who acts: Persians · What happens: come forward, meet, point · To what, where: death, points, spears
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 (Persians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Persians | det |
| 2 | Persians | Persian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 meet | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 meet | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 points | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 points | det |
| 12 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meet | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spears | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 spears | nmod:poss |
| 15 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 points | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come forward | past | the Persians | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the Persians not said here | death | the points of Persians's spears | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | point | Persians's spears | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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