Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 50
They ran upon us, and had such mastery over us that I only escaped to tell the tale."
Who acts: knights, I · What happens: run, have, escape, tell · To what, where: such mastery, tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mastery | amod |
| 9 | mastery | mastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 had | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 escaped | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 escaped | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 escaped | advmod |
| 15 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 escaped | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tale | det |
| 19 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | knights = knight | upon us | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon we=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | have | past | knights = knight not said here | such mastery | over us | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mastery=Patient | |||
| 3 | escape | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | the tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
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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