Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 126
This the Saracens would willingly have done, but they could not; many were hurt and many slain, and at last all the Frenchmen escaped into the Tower.
Who acts: last Frenchmen · What happens: do, hurt, escape · To what, where: Saracens, many, Tower
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 (last Frenchmen), 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 Saracens | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Saracens | det |
| 3 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 5 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 7 done | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurt | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hurt | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 hurt | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 could | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurt | punct |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hurt | aux:pass |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 done | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 slain | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 slain | amod |
| 19 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurt | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 escaped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 escaped | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 last | case |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Frenchmen | amod |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 Frenchmen | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Frenchmen | det |
| 26 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 escaped | nsubj |
| 27 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | parataxis |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 Tower | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Tower | det |
| 30 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 escaped | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | would · perfect · passive | the Saracens This | willingly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hurt | could · passive | many | many slain conj | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | escape | past | all last Frenchmen | the Tower | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tower=Initial_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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