Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 94
Their horses also were in a sore plight, for they had nothing to eat save only such roots as they could find in the ground.
Who acts: horses, knights · What happens: be, have, eat, save, find · To what, where: sore plight, nothing, such roots, ground
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 (horses, knights), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horses | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plight | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 plight | advmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 plight | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 plight | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 plight | det |
| 7 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plight | amod |
| 8 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 had | case |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 plight | parataxis |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 nothing | acl |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 eat | xcomp |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 roots | advmod |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 roots | amod |
| 19 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 save | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 find | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | aux |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 save | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 plight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | knights's horses | a sore plight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | knights = knight | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | knights = knight not said here | nothing not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | knights = knight not said here | such roots | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | could | knights = knight | the ground | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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