Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 109
Moreover, the Saracens, when they saw the gold, left off fighting against the French, and began to slay each other.
Who acts: Saracens · What happens: see, leave off, fight, begin, slay · To what, where: gold, each
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saracens), 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 8 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Saracens | det |
| 4 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gold | det |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 left | compound:prt |
| 14 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 left | xcomp |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 French | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 French | det |
| 17 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fighting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 slay | mark |
| 22 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 22 slay | obj |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 each | fixed |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Saracens | the gold | Lords = lord nsubj; moreover property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | leave off | past | the Saracens not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | the Saracens not said here | against the French | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the Saracens not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | slay | to-infinitive | the Saracens not said here | each | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient |
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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