Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 3

It was marching along the seashore, and in a few days would be in Greece.

Who acts: army · What happens: march, be · To what, where: seashore, Greece

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 (army), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 marching	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 marching	aux
3	marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 seashore	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seashore	det
6	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marching	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Greece	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Greece	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 days	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 days	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Greece	obl
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 Greece	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 Greece	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Greece	case
16	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 marching	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 marching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past · progressive	army			the seashore			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along seashore=Trajectory
2	is	would				Greece	day		tree rules

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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