Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 61
Nor, indeed, would they have so prevailed but for the help of Fierabras.
Who acts: Saracens · What happens: prevail, help · To what, where: Fierabras
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 (Saracens), 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 | INTJ | _ | 9 prevailed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nor | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 9 prevailed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 prevailed | aux |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 prevailed | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 prevailed | aux |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 prevailed | advmod |
| 9 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 help | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 help | det |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prevailed | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Fierabras | case |
| 15 | Fierabras | Fierabras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 help | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 prevailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | would · perfect | Saracens = saracen | the help of Fierabras conj; indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | Fierabras | nom help «act transitive»: of=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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