Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 69
So the three Barons returned to the King, and told him the words of Reynaud.
Who acts: three Barons · What happens: return, tell, word · To what, where: words, King, Reynaud · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Barons | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Barons | nummod |
| 4 | Barons | baron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 words | det |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Reynaud | case |
| 16 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 words | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the three Barons | to the King result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the three Barons not said here | the words of Reynaud | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient word=Topic | |||
| 3 | word | Reynaud | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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