Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 21
In the romance Charlemagne's rearguard is destroyed by an overpowering force of Saracens.
Who acts: overpowering force · What happens: destroy, overpower · To what, where: rearguard, romance
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (overpowering force), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 romance | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 romance | det |
| 3 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 destroyed | obl |
| 4 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rearguard | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Charlemagne | case |
| 6 | rearguard | rearguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 8 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 force | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 force | det |
| 11 | overpowering | overpower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 force | amod |
| 12 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 destroyed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Saracens | case |
| 14 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 force | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | present · passive | a overpowering force of Saracens | Charlemagne's rearguard | the romance | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | overpower | gerund | 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: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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