Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 72

Their spears are shivered and their swords broken; a full half of them are dead, and they that are left have no strength remaining in them.

Who acts: full half, strength · What happens: shiver, break, be, leave, have, remain · To what, where: spears, swords, men, strength

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 (full half, strength), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 spears	nmod:poss
2	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shivered	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shivered	aux:pass
4	shivered	shiver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 broken	cc
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 swords	nmod:poss
7	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 broken	nsubj:pass
8	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shivered	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 dead	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 half	det
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 half	amod
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 dead	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 half	nmod
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dead	cop
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shivered	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 left	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 left	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 left	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 left	nsubj:pass
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 left	aux:pass
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 have	advcl
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shivered	parataxis
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 strength	det
25	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 strength	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 remaining	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shivered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shiver	present · passive		men's spears		tree rules
2	break	participle · passive		men's swords		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	present	a full half of men		dead property	tree rules
4	leave	present · passive		men = man	that nsubj:pass	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	have	present		no strength		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
6	remain	gerund	no strength not said here		in men = man	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 72