Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 7
But finding no man they descended on the other side and opened the gates that the King might come in.
Who acts: Peers, gates · What happens: find, descend, open, come in · To what, where: man, other side, gates
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 (Peers, gates), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 finding | cc |
| 2 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 finding | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 descended | nsubj |
| 6 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 descended | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 opened | cc |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 descended | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gates | det |
| 14 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 opened | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 come | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gates | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 finding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | no man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 2 | descend | past | Peers = peer | no man not said here | the other side | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | |||
| 3 | open | past | Peers = peer not said here | the gates | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come in | might | the gates | the King nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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