Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 74
And this the pagans did, and for all the valour of Huon and Geoffrey and the prisoners the castle was very like to be taken.
Who acts: pagans, castle · What happens: do, be, take
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 (pagans, castle), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 did | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 pagans | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pagans | det |
| 4 | pagans | pagan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 like | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 like | cc |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 valour | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 valour | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 valour | det |
| 11 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 like | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Huon | case |
| 13 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 valour | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Geoffrey | cc |
| 15 | Geoffrey | Geoffrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Huon | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 prisoners | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prisoners | det |
| 18 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Huon | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 castle | det |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 like | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 like | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 like | advmod |
| 23 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 did | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 taken | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 taken | aux:pass |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 like | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | this pagans | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the castle | for all valour of Huon and Geoffrey and the prisoners; like property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the castle not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
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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