Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 97
As for the knights they were ill to see, for their armour was eaten away with rust and their skins dark with hunger and want.
Who acts: horses · What happens: be, see, eat away, want · To what, where: knights, armour
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), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 knights | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knights | det |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ill | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ill | cop |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knights | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ill | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eaten | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 eaten | mark |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 armour | nmod:poss |
| 13 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 eaten | aux:pass |
| 15 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 see | parataxis |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 eaten | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 rust | case |
| 18 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eaten | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dark | cc |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 skins | nmod:poss |
| 21 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dark | nsubj |
| 22 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eaten | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 hunger | case |
| 24 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dark | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 want | cc |
| 26 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 dark | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | horses = horse | the knights not said here | ill property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | horses = horse not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | eat away | past · passive | horses's armour | with rust; away property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | want | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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