Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 88
And when he saw this and heard the roaring of the water, he commended himself to God.
Who acts: stream, water · What happens: see, hear, commend, roar · To what, where: this, roaring, stream, God
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 (stream, water), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roaring | det |
| 9 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roaring | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 commended | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 commended | nsubj |
| 15 | commended | commend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 commended | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 God | case |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 commended | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | stream | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | stream not said here | the roaring of the water | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer roaring=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | commend | past | stream | stream | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 4 | roar | the water | nom roaring «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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