Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 105
Then Reynaud caused him to be unbound, and said, "Stand here by me, my cousin, and we will see what the King will do."
Who acts: Reynaud, King, we · What happens: cause, be, say, stand, see, do · To what, where: King, cousin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, King, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 caused | advmod |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caused | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 unbound | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unbound | cop |
| 7 | unbound | unbound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caused | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stand | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stand | punct |
| 13 | Stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 Stand | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Stand | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cousin | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Stand | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 see | cc |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Stand | conj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 do | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 do | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | aux |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 see | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | Reynaud | King | then | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition he=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | King not said here | unbound property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Reynaud not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | infinitive | my cousin | here | by Reynaud | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by i=Location | |||
| 5 | see in a quote | future | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | future | the King | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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