Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 88

Thus did the Saracens gain possession of the first defences of the Tower; yet having won them, they could not long hold them, for the French knights did their part right bravely, hurling down from the upper parts stones and darts, and all kinds of missiles, and these so strongly that no man could stand against them.

Who acts: engines, Saracens, French knights, kinds · What happens: do, gain, have, win, not hold, hurl down · To what, where: possession, engines, defences, part, upper parts stones, first defences

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 (engines, Saracens, French knights, kinds), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hold	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Saracens	det
4	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 gain	nsubj
5	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gain	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 defences	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 defences	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 defences	amod
10	defences	defence	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 possession	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Tower	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tower	det
13	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 defences	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 won	punct
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	17 won	cc
16	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 won	nsubj
17	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 won	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hold	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hold	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 hold	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 hold	advmod
24	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hold	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 did	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 did	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 knights	det
29	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 knights	amod
30	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 did	nsubj
31	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hold	advcl
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 part	nmod:poss
33	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 did	obj
34	right	right	ADV	_	35 bravely	advmod
35	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	31 did	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hurling	punct
37	hurling	hurl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 did	advcl
38	down	down	ADV	_	37 hurling	advmod
39	from	from	ADP	_	43 stones	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 stones	det
41	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 stones	amod
42	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 stones	compound
43	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hurling	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 darts	cc
45	darts	dart	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 stones	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 stand	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 stand	cc
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 kinds	det
49	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 stand	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 missiles	case
51	missiles	missile	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 kinds	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 stand	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 stand	cc
54	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	61 stand	nsubj
55	so	so	ADV	_	56 strongly	advmod
56	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	61 stand	advmod
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 stand	mark
58	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	59 man	det
59	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 stand	nsubj
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 stand	aux
61	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hold	conj
62	against	against	ADP	_	63 them	case
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 stand	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	engines = engine not said here			thus property	tree rules
2	gain	present	the Saracens	possession of the first defences of the Tower			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
3	have	gerund					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	win	past		engines = engine			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
5	not hold	could	engines = engine	defences = defence		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	do	past	the French knights	engines's part		bravely property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality
7	hurl down	gerund	the French knights not said here		the upper parts stones and darts	down property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from stone=Initial_Location
8	stand	could	all kinds of missiles			against engines = engine; these nsubj; no man nsubj; strongly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against they=Location
9	possess			the first defences of the Tower			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient
10	defend			the Tower			nom defence «process transitive»: of=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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 88