Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 31
Then the Saracens bound his hands, and the Admiral bade his men fetch Brullant and Sortibrant and others of his council. "
Who acts: Saracens, Admiral, men · What happens: bind, bade, fetch · To what, where: hands, Brullant
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, Admiral, men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bound | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Saracens | det |
| 3 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 bound | nsubj |
| 4 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bound | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bade | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bade | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Admiral | det |
| 10 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bade | nsubj |
| 11 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bound | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 men | nmod:poss |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fetch | nsubj |
| 14 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bade | ccomp |
| 15 | Brullant | Brullant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fetch | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Sortibrant | cc |
| 17 | Sortibrant | Sortibrant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Brullant | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 others | cc |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Brullant | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 council | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 council | nmod:poss |
| 22 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 others | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bound | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past | the Saracens | Saracen's hands | then | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | bade | past | the Admiral | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fetch | present | Admiral's men | Brullant and Sortibrant and others of Admiral's council | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brullant=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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