Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 60
But it passed the skill of man to hold the place against such odds as were brought against them.
Who acts: castle · What happens: pass, hold, bring · To what, where: skill, place, such odds
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 passed | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skill | det |
| 5 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skill | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hold | mark |
| 9 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 passed | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | obj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 odds | case |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 odds | amod |
| 14 | odds | odd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hold | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 brought | mark |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux:pass |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hold | advcl |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | castle | the skill of man | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skill=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | castle not said here | the place | such odds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme against odd=Location | |||
| 3 | bring | past · passive | castle not said here | against men = man | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: against they=Destination |
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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