Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 54
Now the Admiral had lighted in a ditch, and now began to cry to his men that they should draw him out.
Who acts: gates · What happens: light, begin, cry, draw out · To what, where: Admiral, ditch, men
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 (gates), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lighted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lighted | aux |
| 5 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ditch | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ditch | det |
| 8 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lighted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 began | advmod |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lighted | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 cry | mark |
| 14 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 men | nmod:poss |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cry | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 draw | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 draw | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 draw | aux |
| 21 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cry | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 draw | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 draw | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past · perfect · passive | the Admiral | a ditch | now | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 2 | begin | past | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | Admiral's men | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | draw out | should | gates = gate | Admiral | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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