Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 34
Then the Saracens took hold of him as he lay, and bound him with cords, and blindfolded his eyes, and setting him on a horse, so carried him away.
Who acts: Saracens, body · What happens: take, lie, bind, blindfold, set, carry away · To what, where: hold, body, eyes
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 (Saracens, body), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Saracens | det |
| 3 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hold | nmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 lay | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bound | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bound | cc |
| 13 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bound | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 cords | case |
| 16 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bound | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blindfolded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blindfolded | cc |
| 19 | blindfolded | blindfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 blindfolded | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 setting | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 setting | cc |
| 24 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 blindfolded | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 setting | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 horse | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 setting | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carried | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 carried | advmod |
| 31 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 carried | obj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 carried | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Saracens | hold of body | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 2 | lie | past | body | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bind | past | the Saracens not said here | body | with cords | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient with cord=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | blindfold | past | the Saracens not said here | body's eyes | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Destination | ||||
| 5 | set | gerund | the Saracens not said here | body | on a horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on horse=Destination | |||
| 6 | carry away | past | the Saracens not said here | body | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 7 | hold | body | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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