Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 1
Meanwhile it was told Balan that Gallafer had been slain and the Bridge Mantryble taken.
What happens: tell, be, take · To what, where: it, Balan, slain, Gallafer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Balan | Balan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 taken | mark |
| 7 | Gallafer | Gallafer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slain | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 slain | cop |
| 10 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Gallafer | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Mantryble | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mantryble | det |
| 13 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mantryble | compound |
| 14 | Mantryble | Mantryble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Gallafer | conj |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 told | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | it | Balan | meanwhile property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient balan=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | slain | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | participle · passive | Gallafer and the Bridge Mantryble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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