Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 39
Nor was this all the trouble, for many of the Christians were slain, and others were taken prisoners, as Gerard of Montdidier and Geoffrey Langevin.
Who acts: Nor, many Christians · What happens: be, take · To what, where: trouble, others
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 (Nor, many Christians), 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 trouble | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trouble | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 trouble | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 trouble | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trouble | det |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slain | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 slain | mark |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Christians | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Christians | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Christians | det |
| 12 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 slain | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 slain | cop |
| 14 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trouble | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 taken | cc |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 taken | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 slain | conj |
| 20 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 taken | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Gerard | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 Gerard | case |
| 23 | Gerard | Gerard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Montdidier | case |
| 25 | Montdidier | Montdidier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gerard | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Geoffrey | cc |
| 27 | Geoffrey | Geoffrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gerard | conj |
| 28 | Langevin | Langevin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Geoffrey | flat |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Nor | all trouble | this nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the many Christians | slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past · passive | others | as Gerard of Montdidier and Geoffrey; prisoners obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme prisoner=Destination |
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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