Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 24
And this they did, holding the breaches as best they might, and driving back the Saracens.
Who acts: this · What happens: do, hold, drive back · To what, where: breaches, Saracens
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), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 holding | punct |
| 6 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 did | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 breaches | det |
| 8 | breaches | breach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 holding | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 best | case |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 holding | obj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 might | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 best | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 driving | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 driving | cc |
| 15 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 did | advcl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 driving | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Saracens | det |
| 18 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 driving | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | this | Ogier nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | this not said here | the breaches | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent breach=Theme good=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | drive back | gerund | this not said here | the Saracens | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme saracen=Trajectory |
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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