Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 81
When they were near the town, Turpin the Archbishop came forth from the gates to meet them with a great company of bishops and priests and others giving thanks to God that their lord the King was come again to Paris.
Who acts: Roland, town, others, lord · What happens: be, come, meet, give · To what, where: town, gates, Roland, thanks, God, Paris
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, town, others, lord), 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 | 6 town | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 town | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 town | cop |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Turpin | punct |
| 8 | Turpin | Turpin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 town | appos |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Archbishop | det |
| 10 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Turpin | appos |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 gates | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gates | det |
| 15 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 meet | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 company | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 company | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 company | amod |
| 22 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meet | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bishops | case |
| 24 | bishops | bishop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 company | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 priests | cc |
| 26 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bishops | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 others | cc |
| 28 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bishops | conj |
| 29 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 others | acl |
| 30 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 giving | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 God | case |
| 32 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 thanks | nmod |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 come | mark |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 lord | nmod:poss |
| 35 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 come | nsubj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 King | det |
| 37 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 lord | appos |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | cop |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 thanks | acl |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 come | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 Paris | case |
| 42 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 come | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Roland | the town | Turpin appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | the town | the gates | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from gate=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the town not said here | Roland | with a great company of bishops and priests and others | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme with company=Instrument | |||
| 4 | give | gerund | others not said here | thanks | God | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to god=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is | past | Roland's lord | thanks not said here | Paris | again | come property | tree rules |
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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