Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 138
But though these and others also bore themselves right bravely, such was the multitude of the Saracens that in the end it carried all before it.
Who acts: others, end · What happens: bear, be, carry · To what, where: others, such multitude, Saracens, end
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, end), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 bore | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 bore | mark |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 others | det |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 others | cc |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bore | nsubj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 bore | advmod |
| 7 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 bore | obj |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 bravely | advmod |
| 10 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 7 bore | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 multitude | punct |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 multitude | amod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 multitude | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 multitude | det |
| 15 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Saracens | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Saracens | det |
| 18 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 multitude | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 carried | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carried | nsubj |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Saracens | acl:relcl |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 before | advmod |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carried | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | this others | others = other | bravely property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the such multitude | of the Saracens | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | end | the Saracens | in the end; before cleft | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Value in end=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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