Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 30
When the Admiral heard this counsel he agreed to it, and commanded that preparations should be made for the slaying of the French knights.
Who acts: Admiral · What happens: hear, agree, command, make, slay · To what, where: counsel, preparations, French knights · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral), 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 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 counsel | det |
| 6 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 agreed | nsubj |
| 8 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 counsel | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 agreed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 commanded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 commanded | cc |
| 13 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 made | mark |
| 15 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | aux:pass |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 commanded | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 slaying | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 slaying | det |
| 21 | slaying | slaying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 knights | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 knights | det |
| 24 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 knights | amod |
| 25 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 slaying | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Admiral | this counsel | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer counsel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | Admiral | this counsel not said here | counsel | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent counsel=Topic | |||
| 3 | command | past | the Admiral not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make | should · passive | preparations | for the slaying of the French knights | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for slaying=Asset | ||||
| 5 | slay | the French knights | nom slaying «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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