Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 59
Nor did the Saracens lack great warriors, such as King Tenebres, a famous Turk, who slew John of Pontoise and many others.
Who acts: Nor, Saracens, King Tenebres · What happens: do, lack, slay · To what, where: great warriors, John
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 (Nor, Saracens, King Tenebres), 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Saracens | det |
| 4 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lack | nsubj |
| 5 | lack | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 warriors | amod |
| 7 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lack | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tenebres | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 Tenebres | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tenebres | compound |
| 12 | Tenebres | Tenebres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 warriors | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Turk | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Turk | det |
| 15 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Turk | amod |
| 16 | Turk | Turk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tenebres | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 slew | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 slew | nsubj |
| 19 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Tenebres | acl:relcl |
| 20 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 slew | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Pontoise | case |
| 22 | Pontoise | Pontoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 John | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 others | cc |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 others | amod |
| 25 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 John | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Nor | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lack | present | the Saracens | great warriors | such King Tenebres and a famous Turk | tree rules | |||
| 3 | slay | past | King Tenebres and a famous Turk | John of Pontoise and many others | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=Patient |
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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