Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 114
And I mind me that the lord that builded it made a secret way by which a man might escape if he was so minded.
Who acts: I, lord, man · What happens: mind, builde, make, escape, be · To what, where: me, place, secret way
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lord, man), 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 | _ | 3 mind | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mind | nsubj |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mind | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lord | det |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 builded | nsubj |
| 9 | builded | builde | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lord | acl:relcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 builded | obj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 escape | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 escape | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 escape | aux |
| 20 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 way | acl |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 minded | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 minded | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 minded | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 minded | advmod |
| 25 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 escape | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | present | I | me | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | builde | past | the lord | place | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the lord | a secret way | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product | ||||
| 4 | escape | might | a man | by a secret way | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | man | minded property | tree rules |
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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