Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 39
But the three brothers got back safe into the tower, and were greatly commended by Reynaud for their valour.
Who acts: three brothers, Reynaud · What happens: get back, commend
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 (three brothers, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 tower | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tower | det |
| 10 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 safe | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 commended | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 commended | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 commended | aux:pass |
| 14 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 15 commended | advmod |
| 15 | commended | commend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Reynaud | case |
| 17 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 commended | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 valour | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 valour | nmod:poss |
| 20 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 commended | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | the three brothers | safe property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | commend | past · passive | Reynaud | for brothers's valour; greatly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for valour=Attribute |
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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