Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 30
He bore himself right bravely, but it was not in mortal man to prevail against such a host.
Who acts: done, enemy · What happens: bear, not be, prevail · To what, where: done, host
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (done, enemy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bore | nsubj |
| 2 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 bore | obj |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 5 bravely | advmod |
| 5 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 2 bore | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 man | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 man | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 man | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 12 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bore | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 prevail | mark |
| 15 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 man | acl |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 host | case |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 host | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 host | det |
| 19 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prevail | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | done | done | bravely property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | not is | past | enemy | in mortal man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prevail | to-infinitive | done not said here | such host | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against host=Location |
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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