Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 26
When the King heard of what they had done, he required of his barons that they should help him to take vengeance for his nephew Berthelot.
Who acts: King, horses · What happens: hear, do, require, help, take · To what, where: King, vengeance
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 (King, horses), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 required | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 heard | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 done | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 required | nsubj |
| 12 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 barons | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 barons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | barons | baron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 required | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 help | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 required | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 help | xcomp |
| 23 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 nephew | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obl |
| 27 | Berthelot | Berthelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 nephew | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 required | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | what obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | horses = horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | require | past | King | of King's barons | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | should | horses = horse | King | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | King not said here | vengeance | for King's nephew | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme for nephew=Beneficiary |
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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