Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 19
Be that as it may, this is certain, that he overtook the Saracens and slew them with a great slaughter.
Who acts: this, King · What happens: be, overtake, slay · To what, where: Saracens
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, King), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 certain | cop |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Be | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 may | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 may | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 certain | aux |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 certain | punct |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 certain | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 certain | cop |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 overtook | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 overtook | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 overtook | nsubj |
| 13 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 certain | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Saracens | det |
| 15 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 overtook | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 slew | cc |
| 17 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 overtook | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 slew | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 slaughter | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 slaughter | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 slaughter | amod |
| 22 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slew | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may · infinitive | this | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overtake | past | King | the Saracens | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slay | past | King not said here | Saracens = saracen | with a great slaughter | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with slaughter=Instrument |
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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