Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 44
But when the sun began to move to its setting, Reynaud's men began to give way, being fewer in number and spent with fighting.
Who acts: sun, men · What happens: begin, move, give, be, spend · To what, where: setting, way, number
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 (sun, men), 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 | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 began | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 began | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 move | mark |
| 7 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 setting | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 setting | nmod:poss |
| 10 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 move | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
| 12 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 men | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Reynaud | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fewer | punct |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 fewer | cop |
| 21 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 give | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 number | case |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fewer | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 spent | cc |
| 25 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fewer | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 fighting | case |
| 27 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spent | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the sun | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | the sun not said here | sun's setting | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to setting=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Reynaud's men | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | Reynaud's men not said here | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | gerund | number | few property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | spend | participle | with fighting | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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