Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 127
When they had shut-to the gates they asked Floripas who he was that they had taken.
Who acts: horses · What happens: shut, ask, take · To what, where: Floripas · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (horses), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 shut | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shut | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shut | aux |
| 4 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 shut | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 gates | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gates | det |
| 8 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shut | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Floripas | Floripas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 taken | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 taken | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 taken | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 taken | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 taken | aux |
| 18 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past · perfect | horses = horse | to the gates | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | horses = horse | Floripas | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent floripas=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect · passive | who nsubj; Floripas nsubj; horses = horse nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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