Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 65
And in the midst of it is a great drawbridge, which is let down and pulled up with ten chains of iron.
What happens: be, let down, pull up · To what, where: great drawbridge, midst
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drawbridge | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 midst | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 midst | det |
| 4 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drawbridge | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 midst | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 drawbridge | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 drawbridge | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drawbridge | amod |
| 10 | drawbridge | drawbridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 let | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux:pass |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 drawbridge | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 let | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pulled | cc |
| 17 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 let | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 pulled | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 chains | case |
| 20 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 chains | nummod |
| 21 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pulled | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 iron | case |
| 23 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chains | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drawbridge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a great drawbridge | the midst of bridge | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let down | present · passive | a great drawbridge | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pull up | participle | with ten chains of iron | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with chain=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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