Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 89

And so somewhat by favour of Ogier, but chiefly by their own valour, the brethren won their way to the rock.

Who acts: favour · What happens: win, favour · To what, where: way, Ogier

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 (favour), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 won	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	18 won	advmod
3	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	5 favour	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 favour	case
5	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 won	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Ogier	case
7	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 favour	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 valour	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 valour	cc
10	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	_	14 valour	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 valour	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 valour	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 valour	amod
14	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 favour	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 brethren	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brethren	det
17	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 valour	conj
18	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 way	nmod:poss
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 won	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 rock	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rock	det
23	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 won	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 won	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	favour of Ogier but favour's own valour and the brethren	favour's way				to the rock	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
2	favour			Ogier					nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 89