Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 28
When he saw this Balan swooned with rage, but, coming to himself, bade the Saracens assault the Tower yet again with all their might.
Who acts: Balan, Saracens · What happens: see, swoon, come, assault · To what, where: Balan, bade · 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: who acts (Balan, Saracens), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Balan | det |
| 5 | Balan | Balan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 swooned | nsubj |
| 6 | swooned | swoon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swooned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 coming | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 coming | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bade | punct |
| 16 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assault | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Saracens | det |
| 18 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 assault | nsubj |
| 19 | assault | assault | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Tower | det |
| 21 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 assault | obj |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 again | advmod |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 assault | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 27 might | mark |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 might | det:predet |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 might | nmod:poss |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 assault | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Balan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | swoon | past | this Balan | with rage | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | Balan not said here | Balan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | assault | present | the Saracens | bade | again; yet | the Tower obj | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient |
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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