Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 54
When the King knew how his message had sped he commanded that they should set the army in array.
Who acts: King, Saracens · What happens: know, speed, command, set · To what, where: message, army, array · 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 (King, 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 | 4 knew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 commanded | advcl |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 sped | advmod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 message | nmod:poss |
| 7 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sped | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sped | aux |
| 9 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 commanded | nsubj |
| 11 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 set | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 commanded | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 army | det |
| 17 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 array | case |
| 19 | array | array | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | speed | past · perfect · passive | King's message | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 3 | command | past | King | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | set | should | Saracens = saracen | the army | array | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme in array=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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