Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 27
Where they had stood there was only a heap of the slain, all bristled over with spears and arrows.
Who acts: Spartans · What happens: stand, be, bristle over · To what, where: heap
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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | aux |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 heap | advmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heap | cop |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 heap | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 heap | det |
| 9 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 slain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 slain | det |
| 12 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heap | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bristled | punct |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 bristled | advmod |
| 15 | bristled | bristle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 bristled | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 spears | case |
| 18 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bristled | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 arrows | cc |
| 20 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spears | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · perfect | Spartans = spartan | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a heap | there | of the slain | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bristle over | past | Spartans = spartan not said here | with spears and arrows; all, over property | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with spear=Theme |
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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