Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 63
And he cried out, "Come all of you to the help of the King!" and a great multitude of Frenchmen came at his call.
Who acts: Fierabras, great multitude · What happens: cry out, come, help, call · To what, where: all, call, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fierabras, great multitude), 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 | _ | 3 cried | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 cried | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Come | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Come | punct |
| 7 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | conj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Come | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 all | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 help | det |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Come | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 help | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 King | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 King | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 multitude | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 multitude | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 multitude | amod |
| 22 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Frenchmen | case |
| 24 | Frenchmen | Frenchmen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 multitude | acl:relcl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 call | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 call | nmod:poss |
| 28 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | Fierabras | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | Fierabras not said here | all of you | to the help of the King and a great multitude | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | a great multitude not said here | Fierabras's call | of Frenchmen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of frenchmen=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | help in a quote | the King | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | call | Fierabras | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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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