Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 18
So he commanded his Barons that they should make ready their baggage and march with all the haste they could on to Ardennes, and this they did.
Who acts: King, Barons, this · What happens: command, make, do · To what, where: Barons, ready baggage · 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 (King, Barons, this), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 commanded | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Barons | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Barons | baron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 baggage | amod |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 baggage | nmod:poss |
| 12 | baggage | baggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 march | cc |
| 14 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 baggage | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 haste | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 haste | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 haste | det |
| 18 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 on | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 on | aux |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 haste | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Ardennes | case |
| 23 | Ardennes | Ardennes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 on | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 did | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 did | cc |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 did | nsubj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 did | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | King | King's Barons | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent baron=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | should | Barons = baron | Barons's ready baggage and march | with all haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset baggage=Product | |||
| 3 | do | past | this | Barons = baron nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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