Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 35
But first cause that a thousand Turks well armed and fit for battle be hidden in a secret place near to the said tree.
Who acts: you · What happens: cause, fit, hide, say · To what, where: secret place · 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 (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 cause | cc |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 cause | advmod |
| 3 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 armed | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thousand | det |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Turks | nummod |
| 7 | Turks | Turk | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 armed | nsubj |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 armed | advmod |
| 9 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hidden | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fit | cc |
| 11 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 armed | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 battle | case |
| 13 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fit | obl |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hidden | aux:pass |
| 15 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cause | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 18 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 place | amod |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hidden | obl |
| 20 | near | near | ADV | _ | 24 tree | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 tree | amod |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hidden | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | imperative | you not said here | first property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | fit | present | for battle | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hide | infinitive · passive | you not said here | a secret place | the said tree advcl | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: in place=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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