Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 24
Some fought with swords, some with daggers, and some with only their fists and teeth.
Who acts: Some · What happens: fight
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 (Some), 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 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 swords | case |
| 4 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fought | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 daggers | punct |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 daggers | det |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 daggers | case |
| 8 | daggers | dagger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swords | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 some | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 some | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 fought | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 fists | case |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 fists | advmod |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fists | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 some | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 teeth | cc |
| 17 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fists | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Some | with swords and some daggers | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sword=Co-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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