Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 123

Before they could raise themselves, for both received no small damage, the two horses, Bayard and the other, fell to fighting.

Who acts: saddles · What happens: raise, receive, fall, fight · To what, where: saddles, small damage

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saddles), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 raise	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raise	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 raise	aux
4	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 raise	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 received	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 received	mark
8	both	both	CCONJ	_	9 received	cc:preconj
9	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raise	parataxis
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 damage	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 damage	amod
12	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 received	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 horses	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horses	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 horses	nummod
16	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 damage	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Bayard	punct
18	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 horses	appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 other	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Bayard	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 received	conj
24	to	to	SCONJ	_	25 fighting	mark
25	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 fell	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 raise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	raise	could	saddles = saddle	saddles = saddle	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
2	receive	past		no small damage	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Theme
3	fall	past			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fight	gerund			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 123

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 123