Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 16

But it cost us dear; all the men of France lie dead on the plain, and I am wounded to the death.

Who acts: battle, men, I · What happens: cost, lie, be · To what, where: us, plain

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle, men, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 cost	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cost	nsubj
3	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 cost	iobj
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cost	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 men	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lie	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 France	case
11	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 men	nmod
12	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cost	parataxis
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lie	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 plain	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 plain	det
16	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wounded	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wounded	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 wounded	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wounded	cop
21	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lie	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 death	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 death	det
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wounded	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cost	past	battle	us		dear property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme we=Value
2	lie	present	all men of France		the plain	dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on plain=Location
3	is	present	I			to the death; wounded 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 16