Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 40
His hands were bound behind his back, and there was a great rope about his neck, and he knew himself to be in evil case.
Who acts: great rope, thing · What happens: bind, be, know · To what, where: hands, back, thing, evil case · 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 (great rope, thing), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hands | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bound | aux:pass |
| 4 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bound | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bound | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rope | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rope | amod |
| 14 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 neck | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rope | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knew | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bound | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 knew | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 case | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 case | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 case | case |
| 26 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 case | amod |
| 27 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knew | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past · passive | thing's hands | thing's back | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a great rope about thing's neck | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | thing | thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | evil case | tree rules |
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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