Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 45

This they did with great zeal, bringing engines wherewith to cast stones and darts against it, and setting ladders against the walls by which they climbed up to the highest parts.

Who acts: This, Barons · What happens: do, bring, cast, set, climb up · To what, where: engines, stones, zeal, ladders, walls

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 (This, Barons), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 did	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 zeal	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 zeal	amod
6	zeal	zeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bringing	punct
8	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
9	engines	engine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bringing	obj
10	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	PronType=Int	12 cast	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cast	mark
12	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bringing	xcomp
13	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cast	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 darts	cc
15	darts	dart	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stones	conj
16	against	against	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cast	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 setting	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 setting	cc
20	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bringing	conj
21	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 setting	obj
22	against	against	ADP	_	24 walls	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 walls	det
24	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 setting	obl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 climbed	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 climbed	nsubj
28	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 walls	acl:relcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 climbed	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 parts	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 parts	det
32	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 parts	amod
33	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 climbed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	This			with great zeal; Barons = baron nsubj	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	gerund	This not said here	engines			tree rules
3	cast	to-infinitive	This not said here	stones and darts	zeal	wherewith property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme against it=Destination
4	set	gerund	This not said here	ladders	the walls		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme against wall=Destination
5	climb up	past	Barons = baron			by the walls; to the highest parts result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient by which=Extent to part=Result

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 45

The tree

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 45