Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 134
Thereupon five hundred knights disguised themselves as merchants.
Who acts: hundred knights · What happens: disguise · To what, where: knights
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 (hundred knights), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 disguised | advmod |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 knights | nummod |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 disguised | nsubj |
| 5 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 disguised | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 merchants | case |
| 8 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 disguised | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disguised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | past | hundred knights | knights = knight | as merchants; thereupon property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Destination |
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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