Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 4

The great king had sent mes-sen-gers into every city and state, bidding them give him water and earth in token that the land and the sea were his.

Who acts: great king, water · What happens: send, bid, give, be · To what, where: mes, city, gers, water, King

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 (great king, water), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	mes	me	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	obj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 mes	punct
8	sen	sen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gers	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sen	punct
10	gers	ger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 state	cc
15	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 city	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bidding	punct
17	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sent	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bidding	obj
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 bidding	xcomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 earth	cc
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 water	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 token	case
25	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 earth	nmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 land	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 land	det
28	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 token	appos
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sea	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 land	conj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 his	cop
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 water	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	send	past · perfect	the great king	mes		every city and state	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent me=Destination ger=Theme
2	bid	gerund	the great king not said here	gers = ger			tree rules
3	give	infinitive	the great king not said here	water and earth in token	King		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=Theme
4	is a	past	water and earth in token not said here	King			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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