Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 95
Nevertheless the horse Bayard was plump and strong, while the others were so lean and weak that they could scarce stand.
Who acts: horse, others, horses · What happens: be, stand
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 (horse, others, horses), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 6 plump | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plump | nsubj |
| 4 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 horse | appos |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plump | cop |
| 6 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 strong | cc |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plump | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lean | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 lean | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 others | det |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lean | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lean | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 lean | advmod |
| 15 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plump | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 weak | cc |
| 17 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lean | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 stand | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stand | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stand | aux |
| 21 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stand | amod |
| 22 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weak | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plump | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the horse | nevertheless, plump property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the horse not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the others | lean property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the others not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stand | could | horses = horse | tree rules |
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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