Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 5

But we have taken five of King Charles's knights; seven other knights came hither bearing a very insolent message to me from the King, all these therefore are in prison.

Who acts: we, seven other knights, these · What happens: take, come, bear, be · To what, where: five, insolent message, prison

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 (we, seven other knights, these), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 taken	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 taken	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 knights	case
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Charles	nmod:desc
8	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 knights	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Charles	case
10	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 five	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 knights	nummod
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 knights	amod
14	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	conj
16	hither	hither	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 message	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 insolent	advmod
20	insolent	insolent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 message	amod
21	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bearing	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 message	nmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 King	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 King	det
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bearing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 prison	punct
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 prison	det:predet
29	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 prison	nsubj
30	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	33 prison	advmod
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 prison	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 prison	case
33	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present · perfect	we	five of Charles King's knights			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Theme
2	come	past	seven other knights			hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bear	gerund	seven other knights not said here	a insolent message		to me; from the King	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient
4	is	present	these		all prison	therefore 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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 5