Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Alfred J. Church., sentence 30
HOW THE HEATHEN AND THE FRENCH PREPARED FOR BATTLE XXIX.
What happens: prepare · To what, where: FRENCH
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Alfred J. Church.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 HEATHEN | det |
| 3 | HEATHEN | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 HOW | nsubj |
| 4 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 PREPARED | cc |
| 5 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 FRENCH | det |
| 6 | FRENCH | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 PREPARED | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | PREPARED | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 HEATHEN | conj |
| 8 | FOR | for | ADP | _ | 9 BATTLE | case |
| 9 | BATTLE | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 PREPARED | obl |
| 10 | XXIX | XXIX | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 BATTLE | appos |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 HOW | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | participle | the FRENCH | for BATTLE | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for battle=Beneficiary |
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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