Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 26
At nine o'clock, five hundred of his bravest soldiers stood around him ready for battle.
Who acts: bravest soldiers · What happens: stand · To what, where: five hundred, nine o'clock
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 (bravest 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 | At | at | 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 | 11 stood | 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 | 11 stood | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 soldiers | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 soldiers | amod |
| 10 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | obl |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stood | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 battle | case |
| 16 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ready | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | King's bravest soldiers | five hundred | nine o'clock | around King; ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at o'clock=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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