Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 46

But all these things availed nothing, but rather turned to the damage of the King's men, of whom many were wounded and slain.

Who acts: things, many · What happens: avail, turn, be, damage · To what, where: nothing, damage, things, men

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 (things, many), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 things	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 things	det:predet
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 things	det
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	availed	avail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 things	acl
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 availed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
9	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 turned	advmod
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 things	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 damage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 damage	det
13	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 men	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 men	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 King	case
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 damage	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 whom	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 whom	case
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 turned	obl
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wounded	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wounded	cop
24	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 whom	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slain	cc
26	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wounded	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 things	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	avail	participle	all things not said here	nothing			tree rules
2	turn	past			the damage of the King's men	of all things	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to damage=Trajectory
3	is	past	many			wounded property	tree rules
4	be		many not said here				tree rules
6	damage			the King's men			nom damage «event 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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 46