Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 18
Then the King's knights would have laid hold on him, but his brothers and kinsfolk defended him, and there was such a strife in the palace as had never before been seen.
Who acts: you, brothers · What happens: lay, hold, defend, be, not see · To what, where: knights, King, strife, palace
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 (you, brothers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 laid | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 knights | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 laid | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 laid | aux |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hold | advcl |
| 9 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hold | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 defended | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 defended | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 defended | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kinsfolk | cc |
| 17 | kinsfolk | kinsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brothers | conj |
| 18 | defended | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 strife | nsubj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 defended | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 was | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 strife | cop |
| 24 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 strife | det:predet |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 strife | det |
| 26 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 palace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 palace | det |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seen | obl |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 had | advmod |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 seen | aux |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 seen | advmod |
| 33 | before | before | ADV | _ | 35 seen | advmod |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 seen | aux:pass |
| 35 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 strife | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | would · perfect · passive | the King's knights | then | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | hold | imperative | you not said here | on King | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 3 | defend | past | King's brothers and kinsfolk | King | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | such strife | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not see | past · perfect · passive | such strife not said here | the palace | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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