Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 28
For whether we prevail or they, there were a grievous loss of brave men, such as shall never be recovered." "
Who acts: we, grievous loss · What happens: prevail, be, not recover · To what, where: brave men
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, grievous loss), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 prevail | mark |
| 2 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 4 prevail | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 prevail | nsubj |
| 4 | prevail | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 were | advcl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 they | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 prevail | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 prevail | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 loss | det |
| 11 | grievous | grievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 loss | amod |
| 12 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 were | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 14 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 men | amod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 loss | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 recovered | punct |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 recovered | mark |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 such | fixed |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 recovered | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 recovered | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 recovered | aux:pass |
| 22 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 men | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 recovered | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 recovered | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | present | we | hands = hand conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a grievous loss of brave men | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not recover | shall · passive | brave men not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
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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