Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 25
A great fortress was it and a strong, for it was built upon a rock and defended on all sides with great walls, and furnished with a great store of provisions.
What happens: be, build, defend, furnish · To what, where: fortress, sides, great fortress
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fortress | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fortress | amod |
| 3 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 it | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fortress | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 strong | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 strong | det |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fortress | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 built | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 built | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 built | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 built | aux:pass |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 strong | advcl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 rock | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rock | det |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 defended | cc |
| 18 | defended | defend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 built | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 sides | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 sides | det |
| 21 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 defended | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 walls | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 walls | amod |
| 24 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sides | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 furnished | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 furnished | cc |
| 27 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 defended | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 store | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 store | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 store | amod |
| 31 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 furnished | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 provisions | case |
| 33 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 store | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fortress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fortress | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | build | past · passive | fortress | upon a rock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | defend | participle | all sides with great walls | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | furnish | participle | with a great store of provisions | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with store=Theme |
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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