Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 39
After this he bade thirty Saracens lead Guy to the tree, beating him sorely with their staves the while.
Who acts: thirty Saracens · What happens: lead, beat · To what, where: Guy, tree, 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 (thirty 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 bade | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 bade | det |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bade | nsubj |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obl |
| 5 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Saracens | nummod |
| 6 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lead | nsubj |
| 7 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beating | punct |
| 13 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lead | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beating | obj |
| 15 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 13 beating | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 staves | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 staves | nmod:poss |
| 18 | staves | stave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beating | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 while | det |
| 20 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 staves | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | thirty Saracens | Guy | the tree | after this bade thing | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guy=Theme to tree=Destination | ||
| 2 | beat | gerund | thirty Saracens not said here | thing | with gallows's staves the while; sorely property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with stave=Instrument |
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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