Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 37

Then he re-mem-bered what the wise men had told him; and so he de-clared that Robert should have the lands which he held in France, that William should be the King of England, and that Henry should have no land at all, but only a chest of gold.

Who acts: king, de clared, lands, William, Henry · What happens: re-mem-ber, tell, clared, have, hold, be · To what, where: wise men, king, lands, France, land, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, de clared, lands, William), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 re-mem-bered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 re-mem-bered	nsubj
3	re-mem-bered	re-mem-ber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 told	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 told	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 re-mem-bered	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 clared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 clared	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 clared	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 clared	nsubj
15	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clared	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 de	punct
17	clared	clared	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 re-mem-bered	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 have	nsubj
19	Robert	Robert	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 have	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 clared	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lands	det
23	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 held	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 held	nsubj
26	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lands	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 France	case
28	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 held	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 King	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 King	mark
31	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 King	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 King	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 King	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 King	det
35	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 clared	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 England	case
37	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 King	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 have	cc
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 have	mark
41	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 have	nsubj
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 have	aux
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 re-mem-bered	conj
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 land	det
45	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 have	obj
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 all	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 have	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 chest	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 chest	cc
50	only	only	ADV	_	52 chest	advmod
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 chest	det
52	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 re-mem-bered	parataxis
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 gold	case
54	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 chest	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 re-mem-bered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	re-mem-ber	past	king				then		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the wise men	king				tree rules
3	clared		king						tree rules
4	have	should	de clared	the lands					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
5	hold	past	the lands			France			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in france=Location
6	is a	should	William	the King				of England	tree rules
7	have	should	Henry	no land		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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