Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 167

Where the Emir led the ranks of the heathen there the men of France suffered grievous loss, and now there came one who brought him tidings of ill. "

Who acts: Emir, men, one · What happens: lead, suffer, come, bring · To what, where: ranks, grievous loss, tidings, Emir

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emir, men, one), 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 led	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Emir	det
3	Emir	Emir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 led	nsubj
4	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 suffered	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ranks	det
6	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 led	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 heathen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heathen	det
9	heathen	heathen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ranks	nmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 led	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 suffered	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 France	case
14	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 men	nmod
15	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 loss	amod
17	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 suffered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 came	advmod
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 now	fixed
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 suffered	conj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 brought	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 brought	nsubj
25	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	ccomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	obj
27	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 brought	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 ill	case
29	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tidings	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 suffered	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 suffered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the Emir	the ranks of the heathen		there			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Theme
2	suffer	past	the men of France	grievous loss					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus
3	come	past	the men of France not said here			there	now		tree rules
4	bring	past	one	tidings of ill	Emir			who nsubj	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination tiding=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 167

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 167