Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 26
And in battle they are not easily to be overcome."
What happens: overcome · To what, where: alms
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: 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 overcome | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 battle | case |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overcome | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 overcome | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 overcome | aux:pass |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 easily | advmod |
| 7 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 10 overcome | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 overcome | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 overcome | aux:pass |
| 10 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 overcome | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | present · passive | alms = alm | in battle; easily property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in battle=Attribute |
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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