Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 48
So the two peers departed with all speed, and told the words of Reynaud to the King.
Who acts: two peers · What happens: depart, tell, word · To what, where: two peers, words, King, Reynaud · 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 (two peers), 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 | _ | 11 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peers | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 peers | nummod |
| 4 | peers | peer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | nsubj |
| 5 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 peers | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 speed | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 speed | det |
| 8 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 departed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Reynaud | case |
| 15 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 words | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | participle | the two peers not said here | with all speed | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the two peers | the words of Reynaud | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to king=Recipient | |||
| 3 | word | Reynaud | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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