Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 6
The Vizier, with many thousands of armed men, took ship--I saw them with my own eyes--because they were not content to accept the law of Christ.
Who acts: Vizier, I, men · What happens: take, see, not be, accept · To what, where: ship, men, law
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vizier, I, men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Vizier | det |
| 2 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thousands | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 thousands | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thousands | amod |
| 6 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Vizier | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 8 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thousands | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vizier | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | parataxis |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 content | punct |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 content | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 content | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 content | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 content | advmod |
| 26 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saw | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 accept | mark |
| 28 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 content | csubj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 law | det |
| 30 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 accept | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Christ | case |
| 32 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 law | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Vizier | ship | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | men = man | with my own eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not is | past | men = man | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | accept | to-infinitive | the law of Christ | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=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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