Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 77
When the messengers brought back this answer the brothers greatly rejoiced.
Who acts: messengers, brothers · What happens: bring back, rejoice · To what, where: answer
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 (messengers, brothers), 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 | 4 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 messengers | det |
| 3 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 answer | det |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brothers | det |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 10 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 11 rejoiced | advmod |
| 11 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past | the messengers | this answer | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | past | the brothers | this answer not said here | greatly property | tree rules |
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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