Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 47
At this the Saracens were not a little confounded.
What happens: not confound · To what, where: Saracens
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Saracens | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Saracens | det |
| 4 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 confounded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 confounded | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 confounded | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 little | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 confounded | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 confounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not confound | past · passive | the Saracens at this | a little obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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