Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 25

All day long the army of the Persians was kept at bay.

What happens: keep · To what, where: army, bay

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: 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 day	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 army	det
5	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Persians	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Persians	det
8	Persians	Persian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 army	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	aux:pass
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 bay	case
12	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · passive		the army of the Persians		bay	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at bay=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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