Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 87

When Reynaud and his brethren heard what the Duke had done, they went to his chamber in great wrath, and said, "Why have you slain my yeomen?"

Who acts: Reynaud, Duke, you · What happens: hear, do, go, say, slay · To what, where: chamber, yeomen · 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 (Reynaud, Duke, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 heard	advmod
2	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 brethren	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brethren	nmod:poss
5	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Reynaud	conj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	advcl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 done	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Duke	det
9	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 done	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 heard	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 chamber	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 chamber	nmod:poss
17	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 wrath	case
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wrath	amod
20	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chamber	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 slain	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 slain	punct
26	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 slain	advmod
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 slain	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 slain	nsubj
29	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 said	ccomp
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 yeomen	nmod:poss
31	yeomen	yeoman	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 slain	obj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 slain	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Reynaud and Duke's brethren				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	past · perfect	the Duke			what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	go	past	Reynaud		Duke's chamber in great wrath		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location
4	say speech: ask	past	Reynaud not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	slay in a quote	present · perfect	you	my yeomen			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yeoman=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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 87