Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 45
When the Duke Benes heard this, he made haste to come, bringing a great company with him, and the battle grew yet more fierce.
Who acts: Duke Benes, Benes, battle · What happens: hear, make, come, bring, grow · To what, where: this, haste, great company
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: who acts (Duke Benes, Benes, battle), 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 | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Benes | det |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Benes | compound |
| 4 | Benes | Benes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 haste | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bringing | punct |
| 14 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 company | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 company | amod |
| 17 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bringing | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bringing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grew | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grew | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 battle | det |
| 23 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grew | nsubj |
| 24 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 25 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 fierce | advmod |
| 27 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grew | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Duke Benes | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Benes | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | Benes not said here | haste not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | gerund | Benes not said here | a great company | with friend | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent company=Theme | |||
| 5 | grow | past | the battle | fierce property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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