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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 16

He said that he had seen them keeping a great court at the city of Ardennes, and that they had much treasure with them, and a great company.

Who acts: messenger, tidings · What happens: say, see, keep, have · To what, where: tidings, great court, city, much treasure · 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 (messenger, tidings), 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

nsubjmarknsubjauxccompobjadvcldetamodobjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctccmarknsubjconjamodobjcasenmodpunctccdetamodoblpunctrootHePRONsaidVERBthatSCONJhePRONhadAUXseenVERBthemPRONkeepingVERBaDETgreatADJcourtNOUNatADPtheDETcityNOUNofADPArdennesPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJtheyPRONhadVERBmuchADJtreasureNOUNwithADPthemPRON,PUNCTandCCONJaDETgreatADJcompanyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 saidnsubj
2saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thatthatSCONJ_6 seenmark
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 seennsubj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 seenaux
6seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 saidccomp
7themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs6 seenobj
8keepingkeepVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 seenadvcl
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 courtdet
10greatgreatADJDegree=Pos11 courtamod
11courtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing8 keepingobj
12atatADP_14 citycase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 citydet
14citycityNOUNNumber=Sing8 keepingobl
15ofofADP_16 Ardennescase
16ArdennesArdennesPROPNNumber=Sing14 citynmod
17,,PUNCT_21 hadpunct
18andandCCONJ_21 hadcc
19thatthatSCONJ_21 hadmark
20theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 hadnsubj
21hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 saidconj
22muchmuchADJDegree=Pos23 treasureamod
23treasuretreasureNOUNNumber=Sing21 hadobj
24withwithADP_25 themcase
25themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs23 treasurenmod
26,,PUNCT_30 companypunct
27andandCCONJ_30 companycc
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 companydet
29greatgreatADJDegree=Pos30 companyamod
30companycompanyNOUNNumber=Sing21 hadobl
31..PUNCT_2 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastmessengervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2seepast · perfectmessengertidings = tidingvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3keepgerundmessenger not said herea great courtthe city of Ardennesvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent court=Theme at city=Location
4havepasttidings = tidingmuch treasurewith commandment; a great company oblvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=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: «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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