Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 43
But not yet was the bridge won, for a great multitude of Saracens came up to help them that kept it.
Who acts: bridge, great multitude, that · What happens: be, not win, come up, help, keep · To what, where: bridge, Frenchmen, multitude
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 (bridge, great multitude, that), 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 | _ | 7 won | cc |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 won | advmod |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 bridge | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bridge | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bridge | det |
| 6 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 won | nsubj |
| 7 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 multitude | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 multitude | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 multitude | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 multitude | amod |
| 12 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Saracens | case |
| 14 | Saracens | Saracens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 multitude | nmod |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 won | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 came | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 kept | nsubj |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kept | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the bridge | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not win | past | the bridge | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come up | past | a great multitude of Saracens | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | a great multitude of Saracens not said here | Frenchmen = frenchman | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | that | multitude | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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