Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 48
Nevertheless, they pressed upon the King and his men with darts and bullets and arrows.
Who acts: Saracens · What happens: press
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), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 4 pressed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pressed | nsubj |
| 4 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pressed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 men | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 men | nmod:poss |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 King | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 darts | case |
| 12 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pressed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bullets | cc |
| 14 | bullets | bullet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 darts | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 arrows | cc |
| 16 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 darts | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | Saracens = saracen | upon the King and King's men; with darts and bullets and arrows; nevertheless property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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