Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 79

He has not driven all evil men out of his country, for on our way we met some fifteen villains who would have taken from us our horses and our lives.

Who acts: Duke, we, fifteen villains · What happens: not drive, meet, take · To what, where: evil men, country, fifteen villains

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 (Duke, we, fifteen villains), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 driven	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 driven	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 driven	advmod
4	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 men	det
6	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 driven	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 country	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 country	nmod:poss
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driven	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 met	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 way	case
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 way	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 way	nmod:poss
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 met	obl
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 met	nsubj
18	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 driven	conj
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 villains	det
20	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 villains	nummod
21	villains	villain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 met	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 taken	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 taken	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 taken	aux
25	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 villains	acl:relcl
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 taken	obl
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 horses	nmod:poss
29	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 us	appos
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lives	cc
31	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lives	nmod:poss
32	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 us	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not drive	present · perfect	Duke	all evil men	Duke's country		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme out country=Trajectory
2	meet	past	we	some fifteen villains		for our way	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent villain=Co-Agent
3	take	would · perfect	some fifteen villains			from us	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from we=Initial_Location

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 79