Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 52
Then had Gerard perished but for his two brothers Benes and Bron, who with no small trouble drew him out of the press.
Who acts: Gerard, Benes · What happens: have, perish, draw · To what, where: Charles, press
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerard, Benes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Gerard | Gerard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 perished | nsubj |
| 4 | perished | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 brothers | cc |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 brothers | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 brothers | nummod |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 perished | conj |
| 10 | Benes | Bene | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 brothers | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Bron | cc |
| 12 | Bron | Bron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Benes | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drew | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 drew | nsubj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 trouble | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 trouble | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trouble | amod |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | obl |
| 19 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Benes | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drew | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 press | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 press | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 press | det |
| 24 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | then | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | perish | past | Gerard | Charles's two brothers and Benes and Bron conj | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Benes and Bron | Charles | the press | with no small trouble | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out press=Initial_Location |
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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