Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 126
Many things they suffered as they went, yet for hope's sake and by help of such wild fruits as they gathered on the way they bear up.
Who acts: Many things, things · What happens: suffer, go, gather, bear up, help · To what, where: way, such wild fruits
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many things, things), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 suffered | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 suffered | nsubj |
| 4 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 went | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 suffered | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sake | punct |
| 9 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 13 sake | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sake | case |
| 11 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sake | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 hope | case |
| 13 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suffered | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 help | cc |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 help | case |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sake | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fruits | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fruits | amod |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fruits | amod |
| 20 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 help | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 gathered | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gathered | nsubj |
| 23 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 suffered | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gathered | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bear | nsubj |
| 28 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 way | acl:relcl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 bear | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | Many things | for hope's sake and help of such wild fruits; things = thing nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | things = thing | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gather | past | things = thing | the way | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bear up | present | things = thing | the way not said here | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 5 | help | such wild fruits | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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