Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 30
There came to this place some five months since a French knight, bringing a message from King Charlemagne.
What happens: come, bring · To what, where: place, message, King Charlemagne
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 came | expl |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 months | det |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 months | nummod |
| 8 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 12 knight | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 knight | det |
| 11 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knight | amod |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bringing | punct |
| 14 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 message | det |
| 16 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bringing | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Charlemagne | case |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Charlemagne | compound |
| 19 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 message | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this place; there | since a French knight; month | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | a message | King Charlemagne | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent message=Theme from charlemagne=Initial_Location |
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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