Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 45
He had scarcely spoken when they saw Guy led by the Saracens, bound and stripped.
Who acts: Naymes, others, Guy · What happens: speak, see, lead, bind, strip · To what, where: Guy, Saracens · 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 (Naymes, others, Guy), 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 | 4 spoken | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 spoken | advmod |
| 4 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 saw | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | parataxis |
| 8 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 saw | xcomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Saracens | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Saracens | det |
| 12 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 led | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bound | punct |
| 14 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Saracens | acl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stripped | cc |
| 16 | stripped | strip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 bound | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | Naymes | scarcely property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | others = other | Guy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead | participle | Guy not said here | by the Saracens | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by saracen=Destination | ||||
| 4 | bind | participle | the Saracens not said here | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | strip | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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