Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 92

But for many days to come they had no rest from their enemies, nor of all that pursued them was there one that did them more damage than did Aymon their father.

Who acts: knights, that, more damage · What happens: come, have, pursue, be, do · To what, where: rest, enemies, knights, Aymon father

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 (knights, that, more damage), 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	_	8 had	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 days	acl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 there	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 enemies	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 enemies	nmod:poss
13	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rest	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pursued	punct
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 pursued	cc
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 pursued	advmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 pursued	nsubj
19	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pursued	obj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 there	cop
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 there	conj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 did	nsubj
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 did	obj
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 damage	amod
28	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 did	obj
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 did	mark
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 damage	acl:relcl
31	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 father	compound
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 did	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	to-infinitive	knights = knight not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	knights = knight	no rest	knights's enemies	day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient
3	pursue	past	that	knights = knight				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is	past					one conj; there property	tree rules
5	do	past		knights = knight			more damage obj	tree rules
6	do	past	more damage not said here	knights's Aymon father				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 92

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 92