Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 77
So Reynaud caused that a gallows should be set up over the chief gate of Ardennes.
Who acts: Reynaud · What happens: cause, set up · To what, where: gallows, chief gate
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 (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 | _ | 3 caused | advmod |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 set | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gallows | det |
| 6 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 set | aux:pass |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caused | ccomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 gate | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gate | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gate | amod |
| 14 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Ardennes | case |
| 16 | Ardennes | Ardennes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gate | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | Reynaud | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set up | should · passive | a gallows | the chief gate of Ardennes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over gate=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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