Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 215
But the greater part readily obeyed the King's command, and were made good Christians, one hundred thousand of them at the least.
Who acts: greater part, King · What happens: obey, make, command · To what, where: command, good Christians · 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 (greater part, King), 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 | _ | 6 obeyed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 3 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 part | amod |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obeyed | nsubj |
| 5 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 6 obeyed | advmod |
| 6 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 command | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obeyed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 obeyed | conj |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Christians | amod |
| 16 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thousand | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hundred | compound |
| 19 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 thousand | compound |
| 20 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 obeyed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thousand | nmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 least | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 least | det |
| 25 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 thousand | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the greater part | the King's command | hundred thousand of Christians at the least obl; readily property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the greater part not said here | good Christians | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 3 | command | the King | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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