Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 2
Thither came the Twelve Peers of France, and many other men of note, besides strangers from Germany, England, and other realms.
What happens: come · To what, where: Twelve Peers
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Thither | thither | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Peers | det |
| 4 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Peers | nummod |
| 5 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 France | case |
| 7 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Peers | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 men | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 men | cc |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 note | case |
| 14 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 men | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 strangers | punct |
| 16 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 17 strangers | case |
| 17 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Germany | case |
| 19 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 strangers | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 England | punct |
| 21 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Germany | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 realms | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 realms | cc |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 realms | amod |
| 25 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Twelve Peers of France | besides strangers from Germany and England; many other men of note obl; other realms obl; thither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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