Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 43

Not one of the Twelve lingered in the rear, or was slow to strike, but Count Roland was the bravest of the brave. "

Who acts: one · What happens: linger, be, strike · To what, where: rear

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 (one), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 bravest	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Twelve	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Twelve	det
5	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 one	nmod
6	lingered	linger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 one	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 rear	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rear	det
9	rear	rear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lingered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slow	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 slow	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 slow	cop
13	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lingered	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 strike	mark
15	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 slow	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bravest	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 bravest	cc
18	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 bravest	nsubj
19	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Count	flat
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bravest	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bravest	det
22	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 brave	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 brave	det
25	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bravest	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 bravest	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 bravest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	linger	participle		the rear		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rear=Location
2	is	past			slow property	tree rules
3	strike	to-infinitive				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	one of the Twelve		of the brave; Count nsubj; brave property	tree rules

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 43