Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 86

Truly they had scarce won their way to the rock but for this, for when they were most hardly pressed he drew back his own company the length of a bowshot. "

Who acts: men, Dane · What happens: scarce, win, press, draw back · To what, where: way, men, own company

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 (men, Dane), 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	Truly	truly	ADV	_	4 scarce	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scarce	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scarce	aux
4	scarce	scarce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scarce	parataxis
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scarce	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 rock	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rock	det
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scarce	obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 this	cc
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 this	case
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 rock	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pressed	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 pressed	mark
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 pressed	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pressed	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pressed	aux:pass
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 hardly	advmod
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	21 pressed	advmod
21	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 drew	advcl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drew	nsubj
23	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scarce	conj
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 drew	advmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 company	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 company	amod
27	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 length	det
29	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 bowshot	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bowshot	det
32	bowshot	bowshot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 length	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 scarce	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 scarce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scarce	past · perfect	men = man	men's way	to the rock for this; truly property	tree rules
2	win	past				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	press	past · passive		men = man	hardly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	draw back	past	Dane	Dane's own company	the length of a bowshot obj	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent company=Beneficiary length=Result

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 86