Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 22
This done, he charged them that they should bear themselves honourably. "
Who acts: Montalban, sons · What happens: do, charge, bear · To what, where: This, sons
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Montalban, sons), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 charged | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 charged | nsubj |
| 5 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 charged | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 bear | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bear | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bear | aux |
| 10 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 charged | advcl |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 bear | obj |
| 12 | honourably | honourably | ADV | _ | 10 bear | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 charged | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | charge | past | Montalban | sons = son | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | should | sons = son | sons = son | honourably property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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