Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 60
Verily we had not been brought to this pass but for our folly when we had the King in our hands and suffered him to go free."
Who acts: we · What happens: not bring, have, suffer, go · To what, where: we, pass, King, hands
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 (we), 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 | Verily | verily | ADV | _ | 6 brought | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 brought | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 pass | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 pass | det |
| 9 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 folly | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 folly | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 folly | nmod:poss |
| 13 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pass | conj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 had | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hands | case |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 suffered | cc |
| 23 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 suffered | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 suffered | advcl |
| 27 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 go | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | past · perfect · passive | we | this pass but our folly | verily property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to pass=Destination | |||
| 2 | have | past | we | the King | our hands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | |||
| 3 | suffer | past | we not said here | King | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | we not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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