Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 5
The pagans took him out of our hands, notwithstanding all that we could do; and how he will fare in their hands we know not."
Who acts: pagans, we, Floripas · What happens: take, notwithstand, do, fare, not know · To what, where: Floripas, hands
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 (pagans, we, Floripas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pagans | det |
| 2 | pagans | pagan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 notwithstanding | punct |
| 10 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 notwithstanding | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 notwithstanding | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 fare | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fare | cc |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 fare | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fare | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fare | aux |
| 21 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hands | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hands | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fare | obl |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fare | parataxis |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 know | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the pagans | Floripas | our hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | notwithstand | gerund | the pagans not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | could | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fare | future | Floripas | pagans's hands | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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