Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 9
And as he searched he found the secret way, which when he had seen he cried, "This has that false knave Mawgis done.
Who acts: King, This · What happens: search, find, see, cry, have, do · To what, where: secret way, false knave · 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 (King, This), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 searched | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 searched | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 searched | nsubj |
| 4 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 searched | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 way | acl:relcl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cried | nsubj |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 20 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cried | ccomp |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 knave | det |
| 23 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 knave | amod |
| 24 | knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | obj |
| 25 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 knave | appos |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 knave | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | King | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past | King | the secret way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | the secret way | King nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | This | that false knave | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knave=Patient | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | participle | that false knave not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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