Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 48
When the men of France saw in what straits he was, they made as if they would arm themselves and go to his help.
Who acts: men, man, swords · What happens: see, strait, be, make, go, help · To what, where: swords, help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, man, swords), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 France | case |
| 5 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 men | nmod |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 straits | mark |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 straits | nsubj |
| 9 | straits | strait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 straits | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 arm | case |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 arm | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 arm | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 arm | aux |
| 19 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 made | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 go | cc |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 help | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 help | nmod:poss |
| 25 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the men of France | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | strait | present | what nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | past | man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | past | swords = sword | swords = sword | as arm swords | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 5 | go | infinitive | swords = sword not said here | man's help | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | help | man | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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