Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 100
Nor were the knights beaten back, even though King Clarion, who was the Admiral's neighbour, came to his help with 15,000 men.
Who acts: Nor, King · What happens: be, beat back, come, help · To what, where: knights, neighbour, help
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, King), 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knights | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knights | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knights | det |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 knights | acl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 beaten | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 11 | Clarion | Clarion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 King | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 neighbour | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 neighbour | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 neighbour | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Admiral | det |
| 16 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Admiral | case |
| 18 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 King | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 King | punct |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knights | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 help | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 help | nmod:poss |
| 23 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 men | case |
| 25 | 15,000 | 15000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 men | nummod |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Nor | the knights | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beat back | participle | the knights not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | King | the Admiral's neighbour | the Admiral nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come | past | King | King's help | with 15,000 men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | help | King | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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