Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 52
When the other Saracens came up and found King Clarion lying dead upon the ground they made great lamentation over him.
Who acts: other Saracens, King, Saracens · What happens: come up, find, lie, make · To what, where: King, ground, great lamentation
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 (other Saracens, King, Saracens), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Saracens | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Saracens | amod |
| 4 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | Clarion | Clarion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | flat |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 found | xcomp |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lying | xcomp |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lying | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ground | acl:relcl |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lamentation | amod |
| 19 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the other Saracens | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | King | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent king=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | King not said here | the ground | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location | |||
| 4 | make | past | Saracens = saracen | great lamentation | over God | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lamentation=Product |
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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