Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 87
He had two siege-engines of marvellous power, which were so contrived that they who worked them could not be hurt by the enemy.
Who acts: Mahon, engines, enemy · What happens: have, contrive, work, not hurt · To what, where: two siege engines, engines
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 (Mahon, engines, enemy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 engines | nummod |
| 4 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 engines | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 siege | punct |
| 6 | engines | engine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 power | case |
| 8 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 power | amod |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 engines | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 contrived | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 contrived | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 contrived | aux:pass |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 contrived | advmod |
| 14 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 engines | acl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 worked | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 worked | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 worked | nsubj |
| 18 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 contrived | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hurt | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 hurt | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hurt | aux:pass |
| 23 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 worked | ccomp |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 enemy | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 enemy | det |
| 26 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hurt | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mahon | two siege engines of marvellous power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Patient | ||||
| 2 | contrive | past · passive | two siege engines of marvellous power | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | work | past | engines = engine | who nsubj | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not hurt | could · passive | the enemy | engines = engine | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient |
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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