Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 73

He had engines of war with him, and ladders wherewith his men might climb on to the walls and make a breach with pikes and mattocks.

Who acts: Duke, men · What happens: have, ladder, climb, make · To what, where: engines, walls, breach

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke, men), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	engines	engine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 war	case
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engines	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 war	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ladders	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ladders	cc
10	ladders	ladder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
11	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	PronType=Int	15 climb	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 men	nmod:poss
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 climb	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 climb	aux
15	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ladders	ccomp
16	on	on	ADV	_	15 climb	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 walls	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 walls	det
19	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 climb	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 climb	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 breach	det
23	breach	breach	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 pikes	case
25	pikes	pike	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 breach	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 mattocks	cc
27	mattocks	mattock	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pikes	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Duke	engines of war with man			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Patient
2	ladder	present	Duke not said here				tree rules
3	climb	might	Duke's men		the walls	wherewith property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to wall=Destination
4	make	infinitive	Duke's men not said here	a breach		with pikes and mattocks	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breach=Product

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 73