Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 95
Meanwhile the Admiral, sitting at a window, saw how the Frenchmen came forth to battle.
Who acts: Admiral, Frenchmen · What happens: sit, see, come, battle · To what, where: window · 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 (Admiral, 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 3 Admiral | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | conj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 came | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Frenchmen | det |
| 13 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 battle | mark |
| 17 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | the Admiral | a window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Admiral not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the Frenchmen | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | battle | to-infinitive | the Frenchmen not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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