Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 127
But they have no victual save what they can win with their swords; the Admiral also has a mighty host of Saracens about the Tower."
Who acts: knights, victual, Admiral · What happens: have, save, win · To what, where: mighty host
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, victual, Admiral), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 have | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 victual | det |
| 5 | victual | victual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 save | nsubj |
| 6 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 win | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 win | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 win | aux |
| 10 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 save | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 swords | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 swords | nmod:poss |
| 13 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 win | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 has | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Admiral | det |
| 16 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 has | nsubj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 has | advmod |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 host | det |
| 20 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 host | amod |
| 21 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Saracens | case |
| 23 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 host | nmod |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 Tower | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Tower | det |
| 26 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Saracens | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | knights = knight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | save | present | no victual | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | win | can | knights = knight | with knights's swords; what obj | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the Admiral | a mighty host of Saracens about the Tower | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=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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