Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 79
Then he mounted to the top of the Tower, and sounded his trumpet, so that many thousands of men assembled.
Who acts: man, many thousands · What happens: mount, sound, assemble · To what, where: top, trumpet
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 (man, many thousands), 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 | 3 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tower | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tower | det |
| 9 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 top | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sounded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sounded | cc |
| 12 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 trumpet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sounded | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 assembled | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 22 assembled | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 assembled | mark |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thousands | amod |
| 19 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 assembled | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thousands | nmod |
| 22 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sounded | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | man | the top of the Tower | then | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Location | |||
| 2 | sound | past | man's trumpet | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trumpet=Theme | |||||
| 3 | assemble | participle | many thousands of men | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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