Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 60
The three Barons went, with olive branches in their hands, and delivered the King's message to Reynaud.
Who acts: three Barons · What happens: go, deliver · To what, where: message, 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 (three Barons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Barons | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Barons | nummod |
| 3 | Barons | Baron | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 branches | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 branches | case |
| 7 | olive | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 branches | compound |
| 8 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 branches | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 delivered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 delivered | cc |
| 14 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 message | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 delivered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Reynaud | case |
| 20 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 message | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the three Barons | with olive branches in branches's hands | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with branch=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | deliver | past | the three Barons not said here | the King's message | Reynaud | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to reynaud=Destination |
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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