Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 108
This they took and cast against the Saracens, to their great discomfiture.
Who acts: This, Lords · What happens: take, cast, discomfit · To what, where: Saracens
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Lords), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cast | cc |
| 5 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 Saracens | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Saracens | det |
| 8 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cast | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 discomfiture | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 discomfiture | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 discomfiture | nmod:poss |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 discomfiture | amod |
| 13 | discomfiture | discomfiture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | This | to Lords's great discomfiture result; Lords = lord nsubj | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to discomfiture=Result | ||||
| 2 | cast | past | This not said here | the Saracens | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent against saracen=Destination | ||||
| 3 | discomfit | Lords = lord | nom discomfiture «feeling 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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