Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 15
When the others understood that it was his purpose to put Oliver to death, they were greatly troubled.
Who acts: others, anger · What happens: understand, be, put · To what, where: purpose, Oliver
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, anger), 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 | 4 understood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 others | det |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 understood | nsubj |
| 4 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 troubled | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 purpose | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 purpose | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 purpose | cop |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 9 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 understood | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 understood | advcl |
| 12 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 death | case |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 understood | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 troubled | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 troubled | cop |
| 18 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 19 troubled | advmod |
| 19 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the others | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | anger | Balan's purpose | Balan nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | the others not said here | Oliver | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent oliver=Goal | |||
| 4 | is | past | others = other | greatly, troubled property | tree rules |
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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