Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 48
Many were killed and not a few leapt from the windows and so perished.
What happens: kill, perish · To what, where: Many
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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | aux:pass |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 leapt | cc |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 leapt | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 leapt | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leapt | amod |
| 8 | leapt | leapt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 windows | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 windows | det |
| 11 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leapt | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 perished | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 perished | advmod |
| 14 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 killed | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | Many | a few leapt from the windows conj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | perish | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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