Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 2
When he could see no man on the walls, he was not a little astonished, and going back straightway to the camp called his Barons together and told them of this matter.
Who acts: rode, going · What happens: see, not be, go back, call, tell · To what, where: man, walls, straightway, Barons · 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 (rode, going), 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 see | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 walls | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 walls | det |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 man | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 astonished | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 astonished | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 astonished | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 astonished | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 astonished | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 going | cc |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 called | csubj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 going | advmod |
| 21 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 going | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 camp | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 camp | det |
| 24 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 going | obl |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 astonished | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 Barons | nmod:poss |
| 27 | Barons | baron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 called | obj |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 25 called | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 told | cc |
| 30 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 called | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 told | iobj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 matter | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 matter | det |
| 34 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 told | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | rode = road | no man | the walls | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not is | past | rode = road | a little obl:unmarked; astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go back | gerund | straightway | to the camp result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to camp=Result | ||||
| 4 | call speech: assert | past | going | rode's Barons | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baron=Recipient | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | going not said here | Barons = baron | of this matter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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