Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 10
These brought great engines of war with which to throw great stones against the Tower.
Who acts: These · What happens: bring, throw · To what, where: great engines, great stones
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 engines | amod |
| 4 | engines | engine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 war | case |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 engines | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 throw | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 throw | mark |
| 10 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 war | acl:relcl |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stones | amod |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 throw | obj |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 Tower | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tower | det |
| 15 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 throw | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | These | great engines of war | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent engine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | to-infinitive | These not said here | great stones | with war; against the Tower | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme against tower=Destination |
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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