Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 99
And when these had been found, he caused that the rest should be buried with great honour, but three of the bodies, Roland, to wit, and Oliver, and Turpin the Archbishop, he commanded to be set aside.
Who acts: Meanwhile, Turpin · What happens: find, cause, bury, wit, command, set · To what, where: these, three, rest, Oliver · 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 (Meanwhile, Turpin), 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 | _ | 9 caused | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 found | mark |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 caused | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caused | nsubj |
| 9 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 buried | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rest | det |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 buried | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 buried | aux:pass |
| 15 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 caused | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 honour | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 honour | amod |
| 18 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 three | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 three | cc |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 caused | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bodies | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bodies | det |
| 24 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 three | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Roland | punct |
| 26 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 bodies | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wit | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 wit | mark |
| 29 | wit | wit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 caused | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Oliver | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Oliver | cc |
| 32 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 wit | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 commanded | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 commanded | cc |
| 35 | Turpin | Turpin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 commanded | nsubj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Archbishop | det |
| 37 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Turpin | appos |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Turpin | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 commanded | nsubj |
| 40 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caused | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 set | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 set | aux:pass |
| 43 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 commanded | advcl |
| 44 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 43 set | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect · passive | these | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cause | past | Meanwhile | three of the bodies | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | bury | should · passive | the rest | with great honour | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wit | to-infinitive | Meanwhile not said here | Oliver | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | command | past | Turpin | Meanwhile nsubj | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | set | to-infinitive · passive | Turpin not said here | aside property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» |
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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