Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 23
Meanwhile, there came to the King at Paris Duke Richard of Normandy, with thirty thousand men, and also the Earl Guy of Heron, and the Duke of Brittany; also many other lords and knights from Gascony, Burgundy, Flanders, and other parts.
What happens: come · To what, where: Earl Guy, Paris Duke Richard
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 came | expl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Richard | case |
| 9 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Richard | compound |
| 10 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Richard | compound |
| 11 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Normandy | case |
| 13 | Normandy | Normandy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Richard | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 men | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 16 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 thousand | compound |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 men | nummod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Guy | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Guy | cc |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 Guy | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Guy | det |
| 23 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Guy | compound |
| 24 | Guy | Guy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Heron | case |
| 26 | Heron | Heron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Guy | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Duke | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Duke | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Duke | det |
| 30 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Brittany | case |
| 32 | Brittany | Brittany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Duke | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 lords | punct |
| 34 | also | also | ADV | _ | 35 many | advmod |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lords | amod |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lords | amod |
| 37 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 knights | cc |
| 39 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 lords | conj |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 Gascony | case |
| 41 | Gascony | Gascony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 lords | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Burgundy | punct |
| 43 | Burgundy | Burgundy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Gascony | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Flanders | punct |
| 45 | Flanders | Flanders | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Gascony | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 parts | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 parts | cc |
| 48 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 parts | amod |
| 49 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Earl Guy of Heron | Paris Duke Richard of Normandy; there | to the King; with thousand men; the Duke of Brittany obl; many other lords from Gascony and Burgundy and Flanders and knights obl; other parts obl; meanwhile property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location |
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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