Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 21
After this Balan commanded that the prisoners should be brought before him, having been first bound with cords and blindfolded.
Who acts: Balan · What happens: command, bring, bind, blindfold · To what, where: prisoners · 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 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 (Balan), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Balan | det |
| 3 | Balan | Balan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 commanded | nsubj |
| 4 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 brought | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prisoners | det |
| 7 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 brought | aux:pass |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 commanded | ccomp |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bound | punct |
| 14 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 bound | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 bound | aux:pass |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 bound | advmod |
| 17 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 brought | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 cords | case |
| 19 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bound | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 blindfolded | cc |
| 21 | blindfolded | blindfold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bound | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | this Balan | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | should · passive | the prisoners | before Balan | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bind | gerund · perfect · passive | with cords; first property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: with cord=Co-Patient | |||||
| 4 | blindfold | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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