Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 64
Great deeds did Fierabras that day, and Ganelon also, so that they two did more than any other to win the town.
Who acts: Great deeds, deeds · What happens: do, win · To what, where: Fierabras, town
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 (Great deeds, deeds), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 deeds | amod |
| 2 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ganelon | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Ganelon | cc |
| 9 | Ganelon | Ganelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | parataxis |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 Ganelon | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 did | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 they | appos |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 other | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 other | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 did | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 win | mark |
| 22 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 other | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 town | det |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 win | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Great deeds | Fierabras | day | Ganelon parataxis | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fierabras=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | do | past | deeds = deed | than any other | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | win | to-infinitive | deeds = deed not said here | the town | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Eventuality |
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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