Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 24
So they departed, with many tears, and coming into the forest of Ardennes built for themselves a castle which they called Montanford.
Who acts: horses, coming · What happens: depart, come, build, call · To what, where: forest, castle · 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 (horses, coming), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 departed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 departed | nsubj |
| 3 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tears | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tears | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tears | amod |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 departed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 built | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 built | cc |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 built | csubj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ardennes | case |
| 15 | Ardennes | Ardennes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 forest | nmod |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 themselves | case |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 built | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 castle | det |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 called | obj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 called | nsubj |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 castle | acl:relcl |
| 24 | Montanford | Montanford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 called | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | horses = horse | with many tears | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | the forest of Ardennes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | build | past | coming | a castle | for horses = horse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent castle=Product for themselves=Asset | |||
| 4 | call | past | horses = horse | a castle | Montanford obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme montanford=Result |
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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