Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 67
The next day the Admiral having assembled a great host, began to assail the castle with stones from slings and poisoned darts.
Who acts: great host · What happens: assemble, begin, assail, poison · To what, where: Admiral, castle, slings
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 (great host), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assembled | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Admiral | det |
| 5 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 assembled | aux |
| 7 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 host | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 host | amod |
| 10 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assembled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 host | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 assail | mark |
| 14 | assail | assail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assail | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 stones | case |
| 18 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 assail | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 slings | case |
| 20 | slings | sling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 assail | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 darts | cc |
| 22 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 darts | amod |
| 23 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 slings | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | gerund · perfect · passive | the Admiral | day | a great host obj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary host=Product | |||
| 2 | begin | past | a great host not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | assail | to-infinitive | a great host not said here | the castle | slings and poisoned darts | with stones | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Patient | ||
| 4 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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