Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 56
The Frenchmen rode in good order towards the place where, the gallows-tree was set up, the Saracens being busied with Guy whom they had now brought thereto, with the rope round his neck.
Who acts: Frenchmen · What happens: ride, set up, busy, bring · To what, where: good order, tree, Saracens, Frenchmen
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 (Frenchmen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Frenchmen | det |
| 2 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 order | case |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 order | amod |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 place | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gallows | det |
| 13 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tree | nmod:poss |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 gallows | punct |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | aux:pass |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rode | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 busied | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Saracens | det |
| 21 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 busied | nsubj |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 busied | aux:pass |
| 23 | busied | busy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rode | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Guy | case |
| 25 | Guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 busied | obl |
| 26 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 brought | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 brought | aux |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 brought | advmod |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 Guy | acl:relcl |
| 31 | thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 30 brought | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rope | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 rope | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rope | det |
| 35 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 busied | obl |
| 36 | round | round | ADP | _ | 38 neck | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 neck | nmod:poss |
| 38 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rope | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the Frenchmen | good order | towards the place | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards place=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | set up | past · passive | the gallows's tree | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | busy | gerund · passive | the Saracens | with Guy; with the rope round Saracen's neck | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | Frenchmen = frenchman | now | Guy obl; thereto property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
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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