Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 8

The men armed themselves, and made haste to go out and drive back their foe; and the women staid at home, weeping and waiting, and trembling with fear.

Who acts: men, haste · What happens: arm, make, go out, drive back, weep, wait · To what, where: men, haste, foe

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 (men, haste), 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	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 armed	nsubj
3	armed	arm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 armed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 armed	conj
8	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	xcomp
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drive	cc
13	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 drive	advmod
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 foe	nmod:poss
16	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drive	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 staid	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 staid	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 women	det
20	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 staid	nsubj
21	staid	staid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 armed	parataxis
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 home	case
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 staid	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 weeping	punct
25	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 staid	appos
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 waiting	cc
27	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 weeping	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 trembling	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 trembling	cc
30	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 weeping	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 fear	case
32	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 trembling	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 armed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arm	past	the men	men = man		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient
2	make	past	the men not said here	haste		tree rules
3	go out	to-infinitive	haste not said here		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drive back	infinitive	haste not said here	men's foe		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme foe=Trajectory
5	weep	gerund				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait	gerund				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tremble	gerund			with fear	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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