Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 19
When Reynaud was aware of their coming he swore a great oath that he would not suffer himself to be besieged. "
Who acts: Reynaud, King · What happens: be, come, swear, not suffer, besiege · To what, where: great oath, King
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), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 aware | mark |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 aware | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 aware | cop |
| 4 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 coming | mark |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 aware | advcl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 swore | nsubj |
| 9 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 oath | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 oath | amod |
| 12 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swore | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 suffer | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 suffer | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 suffer | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 suffer | advmod |
| 17 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 oath | acl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 suffer | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 besieged | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 besieged | aux:pass |
| 21 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 suffer | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Reynaud | aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | Reynaud | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swear | past | King | a great oath | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not suffer | would | King | King | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | besiege | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | 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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