Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 139
Four times did the host of the Saracens advance, four times did the Frenchmen beat it back.
Who acts: Frenchmen · What happens: do, beat back · To what, where: host
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 (Frenchmen), 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 host | det |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 advance | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 advance | det |
| 8 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 advance | compound |
| 9 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 host | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 did | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Frenchmen | det |
| 15 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 beat | nsubj |
| 16 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 did | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beat | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 beat | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the host of the Saracens advance | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | past | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | beat back | past | the Frenchmen | host | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
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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