Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 67
While the King was yet speaking there was heard a great outcry in the street, for the body of the Prince was being carried through the town and the people lamented over it.
Who acts: King · What happens: speak, hear, carry, lament · To what, where: great outcry, street, body, town · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 speaking | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 speaking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speaking | aux |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 speaking | advmod |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 heard | advcl |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 heard | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux:pass |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 outcry | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 outcry | amod |
| 12 | outcry | outcry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 street | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 street | det |
| 15 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 outcry | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 body | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Prince | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prince | det |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 body | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 carried | aux:pass |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 carried | aux:pass |
| 25 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 heard | parataxis |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 town | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 town | det |
| 28 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carried | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 people | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 people | det |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 town | conj |
| 32 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 carried | conj |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 lamented | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | the King | yet | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | a great outcry | the street; there | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: outcry=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | carry | past · passive | the body of the Prince | the town and the people | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lament | past | body | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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