Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 74
And when he saw how many there were--for there were a hundred thousand men--he thanked God that had given him such power.
Who acts: Admiral, thousand men · What happens: see, be, thank, give · To what, where: God, Admiral · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Admiral, thousand men), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 were | expl |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 many | cop |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 were | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hundred | det |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 thousand | compound |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 men | nummod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | nsubj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 thanked | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thanked | nsubj |
| 19 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thanked | ccomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 given | iobj |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 power | amod |
| 26 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Admiral | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | many property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | past | thousand men | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | past | Admiral | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give | past · perfect · passive | God | Admiral | that nsubj:pass; such power obj | 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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