Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 60
Then the King sent his physicians and sages to search out his wounds, who having examined him, when they found that he had not been hurt in any mortal part, affirmed, that he would be whole again in the space of two months.
Who acts: King, wounds, bade · What happens: send, search out, have, examine, find, not hurt · To what, where: physicians, wounds, bade, mortal part, space · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, wounds, bade), 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 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 physicians | nmod:poss |
| 6 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sages | cc |
| 8 | sages | sage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 physicians | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 search | mark |
| 10 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 search | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 search | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 examined | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 examined | nsubj |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 examined | reparandum |
| 17 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wounds | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 examined | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 found | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 examined | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 hurt | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hurt | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 hurt | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 hurt | advmod |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 hurt | aux:pass |
| 28 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 found | ccomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 part | case |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 part | det |
| 31 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 part | amod |
| 32 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hurt | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 affirmed | punct |
| 34 | affirmed | affirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 hurt | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 whole | punct |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 whole | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 whole | nsubj |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 whole | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 whole | cop |
| 40 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 affirmed | conj |
| 41 | again | again | ADV | _ | 40 whole | advmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 space | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 space | det |
| 44 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 whole | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 months | case |
| 46 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 months | nummod |
| 47 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 space | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | bade's physicians and sages | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent physician=Theme | |||
| 2 | search out | to-infinitive | the King not said here | bade's wounds | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wound=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | examine | past | bade's wounds | bade | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | wounds = wound | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not hurt | past · perfect · passive | bade | any mortal part | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | affirm | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | is | would | bade | the space of two months | again | whole property | tree rules | ||
| 9 | wound | bade | nom wound «state 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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