Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 40
And in his dream he saw how that there came out of the forest of Ardennes thirty other bears who spake each with the voice of a man. "
Who acts: King, thirty other bears · What happens: see, come out, speak, dream · To what, where: dream, forest, each · 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 (King, thirty other bears), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dream | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dream | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 came | advmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bears | case |
| 16 | Ardennes | Ardennes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 thirty | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 bears | compound |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bears | amod |
| 19 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 forest | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 spake | nsubj |
| 21 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 bears | acl:relcl |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 spake | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 voice | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spake | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 man | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 voice | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | King | King's dream | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | King not said here | the forest of thirty other bears | there | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient forest=Result | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | thirty other bears | each | with the voice of a man | tree rules | |||
| 4 | dream | King | nom dream «cognition 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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