Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 26
Fifty thousand warriors followed him; blacker than ink were they all, and with nothing that was white about them save only their teeth. "
Who acts: thousand warriors, that · What happens: follow, be, save · To what, where: Chief, teeth
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand warriors, that), 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 | Fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 warriors | nummod |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 blacker | punct |
| 7 | blacker | black | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 followed | parataxis |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 ink | case |
| 9 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blacker | obl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | cop |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 all | nsubj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 blacker | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 save | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 save | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 nothing | case |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 save | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 white | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 white | cop |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nothing | amod |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 white | obl |
| 22 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | parataxis |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 teeth | advmod |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 save | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | thousand warriors | Chief | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | about alas = ala; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | present | alas's teeth | with nothing | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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