Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 49

When the host, returning to Paris, came to the river Meuse, a millstone was tied about his neck, and he was cast into the river.

Who acts: host · What happens: return, come, tie, cast · To what, where: Paris, river Meuse, millstone, host, river

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 (host), 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	9 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 host	det
3	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 returning	punct
5	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 host	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Paris	case
7	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 returning	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 host	punct
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tied	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 Meuse	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Meuse	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Meuse	compound
13	Meuse	Meuse	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 millstone	det
16	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tied	aux:pass
18	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 neck	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 neck	nmod:poss
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cast	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cast	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cast	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 cast	aux:pass
26	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tied	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 river	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 river	det
29	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cast	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	gerund	the host not said here		Paris			vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to paris=Result
2	come	past	the host			the river Meuse		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meuse=Initial_Location
3	tie	past · passive		a millstone			about host's neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	cast	past · passive		host		the river		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into river=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 49