Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 62
And when they were come to the city, it being the third day from the issuing of the King's command, they saluted the great image of Mahomet, the false prophet that stood on the topmost tower.
Who acts: city, chiefs, false prophet, King · What happens: come, be, salute, stand, issue, command · To what, where: chiefs, third day, issuing, great image, topmost tower, command · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (city, chiefs, false prophet, King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux:pass |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 day | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 day | nsubj |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 day | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 issuing | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 issuing | det |
| 17 | issuing | issuing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 command | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 command | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 King | case |
| 22 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 issuing | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saluted | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saluted | nsubj |
| 25 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 image | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 image | amod |
| 28 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saluted | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Mahomet | case |
| 30 | Mahomet | Mahomet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 image | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 prophet | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 prophet | det |
| 33 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 prophet | amod |
| 34 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Mahomet | appos |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 stood | nsubj |
| 36 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 prophet | acl:relcl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 tower | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 tower | det |
| 39 | topmost | topmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 tower | amod |
| 40 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stood | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · passive | chiefs = chief | to the city | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | city | the third day | the issuing of the King's command | tree rules | |||
| 3 | salute | past | chiefs = chief | the great image of Mahomet | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the false prophet | the topmost tower | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tower=Location | ||||
| 5 | issue | the King's command | nom issuing «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | command | the King | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | image | Mahomet | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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