Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 78
The Frenchmen are but few, and when they shall be aware of this great multitude they will be overcome with fear."
Who acts: Frenchmen, great multitude · What happens: be, overcome · To what, where: Frenchmen
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 (Frenchmen, great multitude), 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 Frenchmen | det |
| 2 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 few | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 few | cop |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 few | cc |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 aware | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 aware | cc |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 aware | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 aware | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 aware | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 aware | cop |
| 12 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 few | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 multitude | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 multitude | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 multitude | amod |
| 16 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aware | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 overcome | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 overcome | aux:pass |
| 20 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 multitude | acl:relcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 fear | case |
| 22 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 overcome | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 few | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 few | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Frenchmen | few property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | shall | Frenchmen = frenchman | of this great multitude; aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | overcome | future · passive | this great multitude not said here | Frenchmen = frenchman | with fear | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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