Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 50
So the King, seeing that there was much danger lest the Saracens should lay an ambush for his army, bade them halt and turn back to the camp.
Who acts: seeing, King · What happens: see, be, lay, turn back · To what, where: danger, ambush, camp
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 (seeing, King), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 15 lay | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 danger | punct |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 danger | csubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 danger | cop |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 danger | advmod |
| 10 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 King | acl:relcl |
| 11 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 13 Saracens | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Saracens | det |
| 13 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 danger | nmod |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lay | aux |
| 15 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ambush | det |
| 17 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 army | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 army | nmod:poss |
| 20 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bade | punct |
| 22 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 army | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bade | obj |
| 24 | halt | halt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 army | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turn | cc |
| 26 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lay | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 turn | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 camp | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 camp | det |
| 30 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turn | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | seeing | danger | lest the Saracens | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lay | should | the King | a ambush | for King's army and bade Saracens and halt | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ambush=Result for army=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | turn back | present | the King not said here | the camp | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to camp=Destination |
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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