Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 11
And this they did to such good purpose that they made three great breaches in the wall by the least of which a cart might have passed.
Who acts: this, stones · What happens: do, such, make, pass · To what, where: three great breaches, wall, cart
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 (this, stones), 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 did | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 did | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 such | mark |
| 6 | such | such | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 purpose | case |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 purpose | amod |
| 8 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 breaches | nummod |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 breaches | amod |
| 14 | breaches | breach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wall | det |
| 17 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breaches | nmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 least | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 least | det |
| 20 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 made | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 passed | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cart | det |
| 24 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 passed | aux |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 passed | aux |
| 27 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 least | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | this | such good purpose; stones = stone nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | such | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | past | stones = stone | three great breaches | the wall | by the least | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breach=Product | ||
| 4 | pass | might · perfect · passive | a cart | which obl | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme of which=Initial_Location |
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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