Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 83
There is no man that could stand against them, and as for our gods, it is long since they have given us any help."
Who acts: man, rest, men · What happens: be, stand, give · To what, where: help, us
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 (man, rest, men), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stand | aux |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stand | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 long | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 15 gods | case |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gods | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 long | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gods | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 long | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 long | cop |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 is | advmod |
| 20 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 23 given | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 given | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 long | advcl |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 given | iobj |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 help | det |
| 26 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | could | no man | against men = man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against they=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | rest | as our gods; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | present · perfect | men = man | any help | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient help=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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