Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 123

Then Duke Richard told him that they yet lived; also he told him concerning Floripas and the Holy Things, but that the knights were straitly besieged. "

Who acts: Duke, peers · What happens: tell, live, concern, besiege · To what, where: King, Floripas, knights · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Duke, peers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Duke	flat
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lived	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lived	nsubj
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 lived	advmod
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	also	also	ADV	_	13 told	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 told	xcomp
16	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 concerning	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Things	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Things	det
19	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	20 Things	compound
20	Things	Thing	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 Floripas	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 besieged	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 besieged	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 besieged	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 knights	det
25	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 besieged	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 besieged	aux:pass
27	straitly	straitly	ADV	_	28 besieged	advmod
28	besieged	besiege	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 told	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Duke		King	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	live	past	peers = peer			yet		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	Duke		King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	concern not said to happen	gerund	Duke not said here	Floripas and the Holy Things				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus floripas=Experiencer
5	besiege	past · passive		the knights			straitly property	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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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 123