Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 62
When the Emir heard this he gathered together the people of his four kingdoms, and put them on board a fleet of ships, and set forth to sea.
Who acts: Emir · What happens: hear, gather, put, set · To what, where: this, people, fleet
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Emir | det |
| 3 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gathered | nsubj |
| 7 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 gathered | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gathered | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kingdoms | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kingdoms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 kingdoms | nummod |
| 14 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 people | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 fleet | case |
| 20 | board | board | ADP | _ | 22 fleet | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fleet | det |
| 22 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 ships | case |
| 24 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fleet | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 set | cc |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 put | conj |
| 28 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 27 set | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 sea | case |
| 30 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Emir | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | gather | past | Emir | the people of Emir's four kingdoms | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the Emir not said here | people | a fleet of ships | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on fleet=Destination | |||
| 4 | set | infinitive | the Emir not said here | to sea; forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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