Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 103
For they saw that there passed by the castle twenty beasts laden with provender, bread to wit, and wine, and venison, and a store of other victuals.
Who acts: Frenchmen · What happens: see, pass, lade, wit · To what, where: store, twenty beasts · 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 the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frenchmen), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 saw | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 passed | mark |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 passed | advmod |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 10 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 beasts | nummod |
| 11 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | obj |
| 12 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 beasts | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 provender | case |
| 14 | provender | provender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laden | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bread | punct |
| 16 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 provender | appos |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 wit | case |
| 18 | wit | wit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 bread | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wine | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wine | cc |
| 21 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 venison | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 venison | cc |
| 24 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 store | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 store | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 store | det |
| 28 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 victuals | case |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 victuals | amod |
| 31 | victuals | victual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 store | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Frenchmen = frenchman | a store of other victuals | venison conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pass | participle | twenty beasts | there | by the castle; wine conj | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beast=Theme by castle=Destination | |||
| 3 | lade | participle | twenty beasts not said here | with provender | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wit | infinitive | 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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