Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 57

And so they did till all the horses were eaten, save four, that is to say Bayard, and one horse of each of the brethren.

Who acts: things, that · What happens: do, eat, save, be · To what, where: horses, four

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, that), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 say	ccomp
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 eaten	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 horses	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horses	det
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eaten	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eaten	aux:pass
10	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eaten	punct
12	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 eaten	xcomp
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 save	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 say	nsubj:outer
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 say	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 say	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 horse	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 horse	cc
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 horse	nummod
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Bayard	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 each	case
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 horse	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 brethren	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 brethren	det
28	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 each	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	things = thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past · passive		all horses		tree rules
3	save	infinitive		four		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme
4	is	present	that		Bayard obj; say property	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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 57