Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 48
Then King Charles bade all the trumpets sound, and forthwith all the men of France armed themselves, with helmets, and hauberks, and swords with pummels of gold.
Who acts: trumpets, men · What happens: sound, arm · To what, where: Charles bade, men
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trumpets, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bade | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sound | obl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 trumpets | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trumpets | det |
| 7 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sound | nsubj |
| 8 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 armed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 armed | cc |
| 11 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 12 all | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 men | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 armed | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 France | case |
| 16 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 men | nmod |
| 17 | armed | arm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sound | conj |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 armed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 helmets | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 helmets | case |
| 21 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 armed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hauberks | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hauberks | cc |
| 24 | hauberks | hauberk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sound | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 swords | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 swords | cc |
| 27 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sound | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 pummels | case |
| 29 | pummels | pummel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 swords | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 gold | case |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pummels | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | all trumpets | Charles bade | hauberks obl; swords with pummels of gold obl | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | arm | past | all men of France | men = man | with helmets | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient with helmet=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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