Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 23
At last their spears were broken; yet still they stood side by side, fighting to the last.
Who acts: spears · What happens: break, stand, fight · To what, where: last spears, side
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 (spears), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spears | amod |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 spears | nmod:poss |
| 4 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broken | aux:pass |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 still | advmod |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 stood | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broken | conj |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fighting | punct |
| 16 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stood | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 last | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fighting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | Spartans's last spears | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | spears = spear | side | still | by side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Destination | ||
| 3 | fight | gerund | spears = spear not said here | to the last | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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