Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 206
But when the Queen saw the multitude of them that fled she hastened to King Marsilas, and said to him, "O Sire, our people are vanquished, and the Emir is dead."
Who acts: Queen, multitude, Emir · What happens: see, flee, hasten, say, vanquish, be · To what, where: multitude, Queen, King, Sire · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Queen, multitude, Emir), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 dead | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 multitude | det |
| 7 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 multitude | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 fled | nsubj |
| 11 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 multitude | acl:relcl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fled | obj |
| 13 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fled | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hastened | obl:agent |
| 16 | Marsilas | Marsilas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 vanquished | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 vanquished | punct |
| 24 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 25 Sire | discourse |
| 25 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 vanquished | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 vanquished | punct |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 people | nmod:poss |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 vanquished | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 vanquished | aux:pass |
| 30 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 said | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dead | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dead | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Emir | det |
| 34 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 dead | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 dead | cop |
| 36 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 dead | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Queen | the multitude of priests | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer multitude=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | the multitude of priests | Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hasten | participle | the multitude of priests not said here | King obl:agent | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen not said here | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | vanquish in a quote | present · passive | Sire | our people nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the Emir | dead property | 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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