Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 39
So the King and his army came to Montalban and set up his tent before the great gates of the castle.
Who acts: King · What happens: come, set up · To what, where: Montalban, tent, great gates
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 army | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 army | nmod:poss |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 King | conj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Montalban | case |
| 9 | Montalban | Montalban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tent | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 gates | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gates | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gates | amod |
| 18 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gates | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the King and King's army | Montalban | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to montalban=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | set up | past | the King and King's army not said here | King's tent | the great gates of the castle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tent=Theme before gate=Destination |
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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