Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 60
Meanwhile the Saracens that had accompanied King Clarion came back, bearing with them the King's body.
Who acts: Saracens · What happens: accompany, come back, bear · To what, where: Saracens, body
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 (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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Saracens | det |
| 3 | Saracens | saracen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 accompanied | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 accompanied | aux |
| 6 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Saracens | acl:relcl |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Clarion | compound |
| 8 | Clarion | Clarion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 accompanied | obj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bearing | punct |
| 12 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bearing | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bearing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past · perfect · passive | the Saracens | King Clarion obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come back | past | the Saracens | meanwhile property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | gerund | the Saracens not said here | the King's body | with Saracens = saracen | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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