Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 61
He laid a strict command on all his nobles and chiefs that they should bring with them to Saragossa as many men as they could gather together.
Who acts: King, chiefs · What happens: lay, bring, gather · To what, where: strict command, nobles, Saragossa
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 (King, chiefs), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 command | det |
| 4 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 command | amod |
| 5 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 nobles | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 nobles | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 9 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 laid | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chiefs | cc |
| 11 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nobles | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 bring | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bring | aux |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 laid | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Saragossa | case |
| 19 | Saragossa | Saragossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 men | amod |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bring | obl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 gather | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gather | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 gather | aux |
| 26 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bring | advcl |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 gather | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | King | a strict command | King's nobles and chiefs | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent command=Theme on noble=Destination | |||
| 2 | bring | should | chiefs = chief | Saragossa | with nobles = noble; as many men | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to saragossa=Destination | |||
| 3 | gather | could | chiefs = chief | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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