Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 42
Many men had been killed, and many more had been wounded.
What happens: kill, wound · To what, where: Many men, many
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wounded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wounded | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wounded | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 many | conj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wounded | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 wounded | aux:pass |
| 12 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 killed | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Many men | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wound | past · perfect · passive | many | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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