Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 72

Yesterday, as I was passing over the river Gironde with ten men that I had to guard me, there fell upon me some thieves that slew all my men and took all that I had.

Who acts: I, ten men, thieves · What happens: pass, have, guard, fall, slay, take · To what, where: river, ten men, me, thieves, men, that

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ten men, thieves), 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	Yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 passing	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 passing	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 passing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passing	aux
6	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Yesterday	conj
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passing	obl
10	Gironde	Gironde	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 river	appos
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 men	case
12	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 men	nummod
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passing	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 men	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 guard	mark
18	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 guard	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yesterday	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 fell	expl
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 fell	obl
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 thieves	det
26	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fell	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 slew	nsubj
28	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thieves	acl:relcl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 men	det:predet
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 men	nmod:poss
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 slew	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 took	cc
33	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 slew	conj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 had	det:predet
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 had	obj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 took	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	I			the river		with ten men	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over river=Location
2	have	past	I	ten men					tree rules
3	guard	to-infinitive	ten men not said here		me				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	fall	past		some thieves		there	yesterday	upon me	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient thief=Result
5	slay	past	some thieves	my men					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
6	take	past	some thieves not said here						vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
7	have	past	I	that					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 72

The tree

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 72