Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 28
When he saw that his sons were well established in dignity, he departed from Montalban and journeyed to the city of Cologne, in which city there was now in course of building a very fair church.
Who acts: Reynaud, course · What happens: see, establish, depart, journey, build · To what, where: sons, dignity, Montalban, city, fair church · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Reynaud, course), 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 | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 departed | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 established | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 established | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 established | aux:pass |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 established | advmod |
| 9 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dignity | case |
| 11 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 established | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 departed | nsubj |
| 14 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Montalban | case |
| 16 | Montalban | Montalban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 departed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 journeyed | cc |
| 18 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 departed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 journeyed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Cologne | case |
| 23 | Cologne | Cologne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 city | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 city | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 city | case |
| 26 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 27 city | det |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 journeyed | obl |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 was | expl |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 city | acl:relcl |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 journeyed | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 course | case |
| 32 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 journeyed | obl |
| 33 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 34 building | mark |
| 34 | building | build | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 course | acl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 church | det |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 fair | advmod |
| 37 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 church | amod |
| 38 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 building | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Reynaud | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | establish | past · passive | Reynaud's sons | dignity | well property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | depart | past | Reynaud | Montalban | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from montalban=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | journey | past | Reynaud not said here | which city | now | to the city of Cologne; in course | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to city=Destination | ||
| 5 | build | gerund | course not said here | a fair church | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset church=Product |
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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