Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 89
So Guenes departed, having four thousand men with him, and met the Duke and his company in the Valley of Soissons.
Who acts: Guenes · What happens: depart, have, meet · To what, where: thousand men, Duke
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 (Guenes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 departed | advmod |
| 2 | Guenes | Guenes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 departed | nsubj |
| 3 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 departed | advcl |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 thousand | compound |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 men | nummod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 having | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 having | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 met | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 met | cc |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Duke | det |
| 15 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 met | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 company | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 company | nmod:poss |
| 18 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Duke | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Valley | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Valley | det |
| 21 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 company | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Soissons | case |
| 23 | Soissons | Soisson | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 Valley | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | Guenes | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Guenes not said here | thousand men | with Guenes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||
| 3 | meet | past | Guenes not said here | the Duke and Guenes's company in the Valley of Soissons | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duke=Co-Agent |
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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