Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 124
And when the others heard these words, they confessed that Reynaud's thoughts were more worthy of a Christian man than theirs.
Who acts: others, thoughts, Reynaud · What happens: hear, confess, be, think · To what, where: words, more worthy
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 (others, thoughts, Reynaud), 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 | _ | 10 confessed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 others | det |
| 4 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 confessed | advcl |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 confessed | nsubj |
| 10 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 worthy | mark |
| 12 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Reynaud | case |
| 14 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 worthy | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worthy | cop |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 worthy | amod |
| 17 | worthy | worthy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 confessed | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worthy | nmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 theirs | case |
| 23 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 man | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 confessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the others | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | confess | past | others = other | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Reynaud's thoughts | more worthy | of a Christian man than others | tree rules | |||
| 4 | think | Reynaud | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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