Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 17
When the King heard this he swore by St. Denys that he would not rest in his bed till he had besieged Reynaud and his company.
Who acts: King · What happens: hear, swear, not rest, besiege · To what, where: this, bed, Reynaud
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 swore | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 swore | nsubj |
| 7 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Denys | case |
| 9 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Denys | compound |
| 10 | Denys | deny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swore | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 rest | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rest | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 rest | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 rest | advmod |
| 15 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 swore | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bed | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bed | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rest | obl |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 besieged | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 besieged | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 besieged | aux |
| 22 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 rest | advcl |
| 23 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 besieged | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 company | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 company | nmod:poss |
| 26 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Reynaud | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | swear | past | King | by St. Denys | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not rest | would | King | King's bed | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 4 | besiege | past · perfect | King | Reynaud and King's company | 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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