Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 118
So the signal of retreat was given.
What happens: give, signal · To what, where: signal, retreat
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 given | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 signal | det |
| 3 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 retreat | case |
| 5 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 signal | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the signal of retreat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | signal | retreat | nom signal «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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