Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 4
Then the two went on together, and coming to Jerusalem, did excellent service for the true faith, delivering the city out of the hand of the Sultan of Persia, who had taken it by treachery.
Who acts: two, hand · What happens: go, come, do, deliver, take · To what, where: Jerusalem, excellent service, city, hand
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 (two, hand), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 together | case |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coming | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 coming | cc |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Jerusalem | case |
| 11 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 service | amod |
| 15 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 faith | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 faith | det |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 faith | amod |
| 19 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 delivering | punct |
| 21 | delivering | deliver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 did | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 delivering | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hand | det |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 delivering | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Sultan | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Sultan | det |
| 30 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 hand | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Persia | case |
| 32 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Sultan | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 taken | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 taken | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 taken | aux |
| 36 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 hand | acl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 taken | obj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 treachery | case |
| 39 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 taken | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the two | then | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on together=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | the two not said here | Jerusalem | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jerusalem=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the two not said here | excellent service | for the true faith | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | deliver | gerund | the two not said here | the city | the hand of the Sultan of Persia | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent city=Theme out hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | take | past · perfect | the hand of the Sultan of Persia | city | by treachery | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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