Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 82
They are all great warriors, but Roland is of such greatness that if the rest were his match they would drive the Saracens out of Spain.
Who acts: men, Roland, rest · What happens: be, drive · To what, where: great warriors, match, such greatness, Spain
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 (men, Roland, rest), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 warriors | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 warriors | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 warriors | advmod |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warriors | amod |
| 5 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 greatness | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 greatness | cc |
| 8 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 greatness | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 greatness | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 greatness | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 greatness | amod |
| 12 | greatness | greatness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warriors | appos |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 drive | obj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 match | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rest | det |
| 16 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 match | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 match | cop |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 match | nmod:poss |
| 19 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drive | advcl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drive | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 drive | aux |
| 22 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 greatness | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Saracens | det |
| 24 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 drive | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 Spain | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Spain | case |
| 27 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 drive | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warriors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | men = man | great warriors | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | Roland | of such greatness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | the rest | knight's match | knight nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | drive | would | men = man | such greatness | Spain | the Saracens obj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme saracen=Destination |
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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