Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 35
But the Saracens met them at the gate, and there was a great fight, wherein many were wounded and many slain.
Who acts: Saracens, many · What happens: meet, be · To what, where: Richard, gate, great fight
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saracens, many), 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 | _ | 4 met | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Saracens | det |
| 3 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 met | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 gate | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fight | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fight | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fight | amod |
| 15 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wounded | punct |
| 17 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 many | advmod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wounded | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wounded | cop |
| 20 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fight | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 slain | cc |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 slain | amod |
| 23 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wounded | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the Saracens | Richard | the gate | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a great fight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | many | many slain conj; wounded property | tree rules |
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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