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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 34

Richard, who was the youngest of the brethren, answered, "This is the King's host, for I heard it said that he was coming to take vengeance upon us.

Who acts: Richard, This, host · What happens: be, answer, hear, say, come, take · To what, where: host, vengeance · 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 (Richard, This, host), 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

nsubjpunctnsubjcopdetapposcasedetoblpunctpunctpunctnsubjcopdetnmod:posscaseccomppunctcasensubjconjnsubjparataxismarknsubjauxccompmarkxcompobjcaseoblpunctrootRichardPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXtheDETyoungestADJofADPtheDETbrethrenNOUN,PUNCTansweredVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTThisPRONisAUXtheDETKingPROPN'sPARThostNOUN,PUNCTforADPIPRONheardVERBitPRONsaidVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXcomingVERBtoPARTtakeVERBvengeanceNOUNuponADPusPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1RichardRichardPROPNNumber=Sing11 answerednsubj
2,,PUNCT_6 youngestpunct
3whowhoPRONPronType=Rel6 youngestnsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 youngestcop
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 youngestdet
6youngestyoungADJDegree=Sup1 Richardappos
7ofofADP_9 brethrencase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 brethrendet
9brethrenbrethrenNOUNNumber=Sing6 youngestobl
10,,PUNCT_1 Richardpunct
11answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12,,PUNCT_19 hostpunct
13""PUNCT_19 hostpunct
14ThisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem19 hostnsubj
15isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 hostcop
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Kingdet
17KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing19 hostnmod:poss
18's'sPART_17 Kingcase
19hosthostNOUNNumber=Sing11 answeredccomp
20,,PUNCT_23 heardpunct
21forforADP_23 heardcase
22IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs23 heardnsubj
23heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 answeredconj
24ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 saidnsubj
25saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 heardparataxis
26thatthatSCONJ_29 comingmark
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 comingnsubj
28wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 comingaux
29comingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part25 saidccomp
30totoPART_31 takemark
31taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf29 comingxcomp
32vengeancevengeanceNOUNNumber=Sing31 takeobj
33uponuponADP_34 uscase
34uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs31 takeobl
35..PUNCT_11 answeredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastRichardof the brethren; young propertytree rules
2answer speech: assertpastRichardvn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3is a in a quotepresentThisthe King's hostthe King nmod:posstree rules
4hear in a quotepastRichardvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5say speech: assert in a quotepasthostvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6come in a quotepast · progressiveRichardtree rules
7take in a quoteto-infinitiveRichard not said herevengeanceupon usvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme

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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