Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 38
He caused, therefore, the gallows-tree to be set up, as Sortibrant had advised, and set the Turks in ambush, more than a thousand, that the thing might be made more sure.
Who acts: counsel · What happens: cause, set up, advise, set, make · To what, where: Sortibrant, Turks, ambush, thing
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 (counsel), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tree | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 tree | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gallows | det |
| 7 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tree | nmod:poss |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 gallows | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caused | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 set | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 set | aux:pass |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tree | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 advised | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 advised | mark |
| 16 | Sortibrant | Sortibrant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 advised | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 advised | aux |
| 18 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 set | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 advised | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Turks | det |
| 23 | Turks | Turk | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 set | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ambush | case |
| 25 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 more | punct |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 set | obj |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 thousand | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 thousand | det |
| 30 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 more | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 made | punct |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 made | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 thing | det |
| 34 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 made | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 made | aux:pass |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 set | parataxis |
| 38 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 sure | amod |
| 39 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 made | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | counsel | the gallows's tree ccomp | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | set up | to-infinitive · passive | counsel not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Sortibrant | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | set | past | the Turks | ambush | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent turk=Theme more=Destination | ||||
| 5 | make | might · passive | the thing | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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