Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 38
These five knights, for all that they are brave warriors, cannot always prevail against the power of the King."
Who acts: knights, five knights · What happens: be, not prevail · To what, where: power
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 (knights, five 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 knights | det |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 knights | nummod |
| 3 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 prevail | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 warriors | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 warriors | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 warriors | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 warriors | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 warriors | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 warriors | cop |
| 10 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 warriors | amod |
| 11 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knights | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knights | punct |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 prevail | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 prevail | advmod |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 prevail | advmod |
| 16 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 power | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 power | det |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prevail | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 King | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 power | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 prevail | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 prevail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | knights = knight | for all brave warriors | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not prevail | can | this five knights and all brave warriors | the power of the King | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against power=Location |
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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