Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 93
At last things came to this pass that there was no one left alive of all their followers.
What happens: come, leave · To what, where: last things, one
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 things | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pass | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 pass | det |
| 7 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 was | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pass | acl:relcl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 one | acl |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 left | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 followers | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 followers | det:predet |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 followers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 alive | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | last things | to this pass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pass=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | no one not said here | alive property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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