Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 71
You will find the men of France worn out with the slaughter that they have wrought among us.
Who acts: You, men · What happens: find, wear out, wrought · To what, where: men, slaughter
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 (You, men), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 France | case |
| 7 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 men | nmod |
| 8 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 men | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 worn | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 slaughter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 slaughter | det |
| 12 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 worn | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 wrought | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wrought | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wrought | aux |
| 16 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 slaughter | acl:relcl |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wrought | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | You | the men of France | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wear out | participle | the men of France not said here | with the slaughter | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wrought | present · perfect | men = man | the slaughter not said here | among us | 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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