Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 58
Now there were in the castle some six score prisoners out of the land of France who had been taken captive on the seas.
Who acts: six score prisoners · What happens: be, take · To what, where: castle, land, seas
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six score prisoners), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 were | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 were | obl |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 prisoners | det |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 prisoners | nummod |
| 9 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prisoners | compound |
| 10 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prisoners | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 France | case |
| 16 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 land | nmod |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 taken | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 taken | aux:pass |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 land | acl:relcl |
| 21 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 seas | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 seas | det |
| 24 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 taken | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | some six score prisoners out the land of France | the castle; there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | |||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | the land of France | the seas | captive obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme captive=Destination |
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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