Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 68
For not only did the Duke's men that were within the palace assail the Frenchmen, but the inhabitants of the town, both merchants and craftsmen, hearing the uproar, beset the gates.
Who acts: men, inhabitants · What happens: not do, assail, hear, beset · To what, where: that, uproar, gates
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: who acts (men, inhabitants), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 assail | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Duke | det |
| 6 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 men | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Duke | case |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 assail | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 assail | obj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 assail | aux |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assail | obl |
| 14 | assail | assail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Frenchmen | det |
| 16 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 assail | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 beset | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 beset | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 inhabitants | det |
| 20 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 beset | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 town | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 inhabitants | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 merchants | punct |
| 25 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 merchants | det |
| 26 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 inhabitants | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 craftsmen | cc |
| 28 | craftsmen | craftsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 merchants | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hearing | punct |
| 30 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 merchants | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 uproar | det |
| 32 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hearing | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 inhabitants | punct |
| 34 | beset | beset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 assail | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 gates | det |
| 36 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 beset | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 assail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | the Duke's men not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | assail | past | the Duke's men | that | within the palace; the Frenchmen obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hear | gerund | the inhabitants of the town and both merchants and craftsmen not said here | the uproar | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer uproar=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | beset | infinitive | the inhabitants of the town and both merchants and craftsmen | the gates | tree rules |
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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