Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 64

There are in it thirty arches, and on it are great towers, and the walls are so wide that ten knights can ride abreast upon them.

Who acts: thirty arches, bridge, walls, ten knights · What happens: be, ride · To what, where: bridge, great towers

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 (thirty arches, bridge, walls, ten knights), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 are	obl
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 arches	nummod
6	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 towers	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 towers	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 towers	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 towers	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 towers	cop
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 towers	amod
13	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wide	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wide	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 walls	det
17	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wide	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 wide	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 wide	advmod
20	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 are	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 ride	mark
22	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 knights	nummod
23	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ride	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 ride	aux
25	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wide	advcl
26	abreast	abreast	ADV	_	25 ride	advmod
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ride	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	thirty arches	bridge; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
2	is	present	bridge	great towers		tree rules
3	is	present	the walls		wide property	tree rules
4	ride	can	ten knights		upon walls = wall; abreast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 64

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 64