Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 25
And when he had done this he saw a great multitude of Saracens about him on every side.
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: do, see · To what, where: this, great multitude, side
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 multitude | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 multitude | amod |
| 11 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Saracens | case |
| 13 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 multitude | nmod |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Saracens | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 side | det |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Oliver | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Oliver | a great multitude of Saracens about Fierabras | every side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer multitude=Stimulus |
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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