Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 70
King Charles found much treasure therein, which the Admiral had laid up there, trusting that it should never be taken.
Who acts: King, Admiral · What happens: find, lay up, trust, not take · To what, where: much treasure, it
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 (King, Admiral), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 treasure | amod |
| 5 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 5 treasure | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laid | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 laid | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Admiral | det |
| 10 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laid | aux |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 treasure | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 laid | compound:prt |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 laid | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trusting | punct |
| 16 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 found | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 taken | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 taken | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 taken | aux:pass |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 trusting | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | King | much treasure | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lay up | past · perfect | the Admiral | much treasure | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Result | |||
| 3 | trust | gerund | King not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not take | should · passive | it | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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