Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 104
When they were in sight of the walls, Reynaud said to his brethren, "We did ill to take no surety of our father, that he give us not into the King's hands." "
Who acts: lords, Reynaud · What happens: be, say, take, not give, sight · To what, where: sight, brethren, surety, us, hands, walls · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, Reynaud), 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 | 3 were | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 were | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 were | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 walls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walls | det |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sight | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
| 10 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 brethren | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 did | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 did | punct |
| 17 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 19 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 did | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 take | mark |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 surety | det |
| 23 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 father | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 surety | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 give | punct |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 give | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 give | nsubj |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 take | conj |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 give | iobj |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 give | advmod |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 hands | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 King | det |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 hands | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 King | case |
| 37 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 give | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | lords = lord | sight of the walls | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Reynaud | Reynaud's brethren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brethren=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | past · do-support | no surety of our father | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surety=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not give in a quote | infinitive | Reynaud | us | the King's hands | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 5 | sight | the walls | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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