Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 21
By nine o'clock, five hundred men will be around you ready to be led into battle.
Who acts: hundred men · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: battle
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred men), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 o'clock | case |
| 2 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o'clock | nummod |
| 3 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ready | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 o'clock | punct |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 men | nummod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ready | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ready | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ready | cop |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 ready | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 ready | nsubj |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 led | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 led | aux:pass |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ready | xcomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 battle | case |
| 17 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | hundred men | by nine o'clock; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead | to-infinitive · passive | hundred men not said here | battle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into battle=Destination |
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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