Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 33

At last, sad and sor-row-ful, he rode toward home to bid his friends and his brave knights good-by.

Who acts: head · What happens: ride, bid · To what, where: friends

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rode	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sad	punct
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 last	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ful	cc
6	sor	sor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ful	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sor	punct
8	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ful	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 row	punct
10	ful	ful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 last	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rode	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rode	nsubj
13	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	toward	toward	ADP	_	15 home	case
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rode	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 bid	mark
17	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 rode	xcomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friends	nmod:poss
19	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bid	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knights	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 knights	nmod:poss
22	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 knights	amod
23	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bid	conj
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 knights	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 good	punct
26	by	by	ADP	_	24 good	fixed
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	head					toward home	tree rules
2	bid	to-infinitive	head not said here	head's friends					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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