Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 28

Twenty thousand Persian soldiers had fallen before that handful of men.

Who acts: thousand Persian soldiers · What happens: fall · To what, where: handful

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 (thousand Persian soldiers), 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	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 soldiers	nummod
3	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soldiers	amod
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fallen	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fallen	aux
6	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 handful	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 handful	det
9	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 men	case
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 handful	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	thousand Persian soldiers			that handful of men			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before handful=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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