Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 63
Forthwith they sought out the thirty knights, the most prudent men that they could find.
Who acts: others · What happens: seek out, find · To what, where: thirty knights, prudent men
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 (others), 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 | Forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 3 sought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sought | nsubj |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 sought | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knights | det |
| 6 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 knights | nummod |
| 7 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 men | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 prudent | advmod |
| 11 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knights | appos |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 men | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek out | past | others = other | the thirty knights | forthwith property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | could | others = other | the prudent men not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
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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