Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 72
In no long time the Duke, having gathered together a great company of men, laid siege to the castle.
Who acts: long time · What happens: have, gather, lay
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 (long time), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Duke | det |
| 6 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 having | punct |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 time | acl |
| 9 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 having | xcomp |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 gathered | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 company | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 company | amod |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gathered | obl:agent |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 company | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 siege | punct |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 siege | amod |
| 18 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 men | appos |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 siege | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | no long time not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gather | participle | no long time not said here | a great company of men obl:agent; together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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