Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 83
For some of the guards had been slain, and some who should have watched were drunken, and the brethren had been surprised but for the loud neighing of the horse.
Who acts: some, brethren · What happens: be, watch, neigh
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 (some, brethren), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 8 slain | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 slain | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 guards | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 guards | det |
| 5 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 some | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 slain | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 slain | cop |
| 8 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drunken | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drunken | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 drunken | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 watched | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 watched | aux |
| 15 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 some | acl:relcl |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drunken | cop |
| 17 | drunken | drunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 slain | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 surprised | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 surprised | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brethren | det |
| 21 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 surprised | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 surprised | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 surprised | cop |
| 24 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drunken | conj |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 loud | cc |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 loud | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 loud | det |
| 28 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drunken | conj |
| 29 | neighing | neigh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 loud | advcl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 horse | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 horse | det |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 neighing | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | some of the guards | for slain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | should · perfect · passive | who nsubj:pass | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | some | drunken property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | the brethren | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | some not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | neigh | gerund | some not said here | of the horse | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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