Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 98
Then the Saracens, of whom there was a great host, assailed the Frenchmen, but could not stand against them.
Who acts: Saracens · What happens: assail, not stand · To what, where: Frenchmen
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 (Saracens), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 assailed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Saracens | det |
| 3 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 assailed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 whom | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 whom | case |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 Saracens | acl:relcl |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whom | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 host | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 host | amod |
| 11 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 assailed | punct |
| 13 | assailed | assail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Frenchmen | det |
| 15 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 assailed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stand | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 stand | cc |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stand | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 stand | advmod |
| 20 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 assailed | conj |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stand | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 assailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assail | past | the Saracens | the Frenchmen | then | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frenchman=Patient | |||
| 2 | not stand | could | the Saracens not said here | against Frenchmen = frenchman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against they=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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