Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 54
So the King laid siege against the city, and brought up great engines of war against it, expecting that Reynaud would deliver it into his hands, for he thought that by this time his strength must be well-nigh spent.
Who acts: King, Reynaud · What happens: lay, bring up, expect, deliver, think, spend · To what, where: siege, city, great engines, hands, strength · 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, Reynaud), 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 | _ | 4 laid | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 brought | compound:prt |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 engines | amod |
| 14 | engines | engine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 engines | nmod |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 war | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 expecting | punct |
| 20 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 brought | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 deliver | mark |
| 22 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 deliver | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 deliver | aux |
| 24 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 expecting | ccomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 deliver | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 hands | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 deliver | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 thought | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 thought | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thought | nsubj |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 deliver | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 spent | mark |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 time | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 time | det |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spent | obl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 strength | nmod:poss |
| 38 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spent | nsubj |
| 39 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 spent | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 spent | aux:pass |
| 41 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 spent | advmod |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 well | punct |
| 43 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 44 spent | advmod |
| 44 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 thought | ccomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | the King | siege | the city | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent siege=Theme against city=Destination | |||
| 2 | bring up | past | the King not said here | great engines of war against war | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent engine=Patient | ||||
| 3 | expect | gerund | the King not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | deliver | would | Reynaud | siege | King's hands | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | King | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | spend | must · passive | King's strength | time | nigh, well property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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