Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 6

For these have borne themselves to us most dishonourably, seeking to take from us our horses and other possessions."

What happens: bear, seek, take · To what, where: these, us, horses

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 borne	mark
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 borne	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 borne	aux
4	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 borne	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 borne	obl
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 dishonourably	advmod
9	dishonourably	dishonourably	ADV	_	4 borne	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeking	punct
11	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 borne	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seeking	xcomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 take	obl
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 horses	nmod:poss
17	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 take	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 possessions	cc
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 possessions	amod
20	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 horses	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 borne	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 borne	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bear	present · perfect · passive	these	us	Balan obj; dishonourably property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary themselves=Patient
2	seek	gerund				tree rules
3	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	our horses and other possessions		from us	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme 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 Doings of Floripas, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 6