Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 95
The Duke and his knights did valiantly, but what could their valour avail against so great a multitude?
Who acts: Duke · What happens: do, avail
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 (Duke), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duke | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 knights | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knights | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Duke | conj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | valiantly | valiantly | ADV | _ | 6 did | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 avail | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 avail | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 avail | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 avail | aux |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 avail | nmod:poss |
| 13 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 avail | compound |
| 14 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | parataxis |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 great | case |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 great | advmod |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 avail | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 multitude | det |
| 19 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 great | nsubj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Duke and Duke's knights | valiantly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | avail | could | what nsubj; knights = knight nmod:poss | 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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