Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 210
They suffered the gates to be broken down without any hindrance, and the Queen surrendered to King Charles all the towers, great and small.
Who acts: people, Queen · What happens: suffer, break down, surrender · To what, where: gates, towers, Charles
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 (people, Queen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 suffered | nsubj |
| 2 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gates | det |
| 4 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 suffered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 broken | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 broken | aux:pass |
| 7 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 suffered | ccomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 broken | compound:prt |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 hindrance | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 hindrance | det |
| 11 | hindrance | hindrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broken | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 surrendered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 surrendered | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 surrendered | nsubj |
| 16 | surrendered | surrender | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 suffered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Charles | case |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 surrendered | obl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 towers | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 towers | det |
| 22 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 surrendered | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 great | punct |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 towers | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 small | cc |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 great | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | people | the gates | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break down | to-infinitive · passive | people not said here | without any hindrance | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 3 | surrender | past | the Queen | all towers | Charles King | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to charles=Recipient |
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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