Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 82
Many a time have we wielded them side by side; many a victory have we won with them.
Who acts: we, many victory · What happens: have, wield, win · To what, where: fellows
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 (we, many victory), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 wielded | nsubj |
| 6 | wielded | wield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wielded | obj |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wielded | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 victory | amod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 victory | det |
| 14 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 won | nsubj |
| 17 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 have | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 won | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wield | past | we | fellows = fellow | side by side obl:unmarked | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | a many victory | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | win | participle | we | with fellows = fellow | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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