Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 58
Nor did he do this without great damage, for Reynaud came upon the army as it retreated, and slew many, and took certain prisoners.
Who acts: Nor, Reynaud, army · What happens: do, come, retreat, slay, take · To what, where: this, army, many, certain prisoners
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: who acts (Nor, Reynaud, army), 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 damage | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 damage | amod |
| 8 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 11 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | parataxis |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 army | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 army | det |
| 15 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 retreated | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 retreated | nsubj |
| 18 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 slew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 slew | cc |
| 21 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | parataxis |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 slew | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 slew | conj |
| 26 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 prisoners | amod |
| 27 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | Nor | this | without great damage | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | come | past | Reynaud | the army | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon army=Location | ||||
| 3 | retreat | past | army | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | slay | past | many | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | |||||
| 5 | take | past | certain prisoners | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=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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